{"id":206857,"date":"2025-09-11T23:21:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T21:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-grassroots-sessions-give-liberians-a-voice-in-shaping-public-health-bill\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T23:21:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T21:21:54","slug":"liberia-grassroots-sessions-give-liberians-a-voice-in-shaping-public-health-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-grassroots-sessions-give-liberians-a-voice-in-shaping-public-health-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Grassroots Sessions Give Liberians a Voice in Shaping Public Health Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\"><strong>&#8211;<\/strong> Communities in Montserrado and Margibi Counties are taking ownership of Liberia&#8217;s revised Public Health Bill after a series of grassroots engagement sessions led by the Help a Mother and Newborn Initiative (HMNI).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\">From July 1 to 18, the EchoChange Project introduced chiefs, women&#8217;s groups, youth leaders, teachers, health workers, and persons with disabilities to the bill&#8217;s provisions, many for the first time. The discussions sparked pledges from residents to mobilize their towns and spread&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509110662.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; Communities in Montserrado and Margibi Counties are taking ownership of Liberia&#8217;s revised Public Health Bill after a series of grassroots engagement sessions led by the Help a Mother and Newborn Initiative (HMNI). From July 1 to 18, the EchoChange Project introduced chiefs, women&#8217;s groups, youth leaders, teachers, health workers, and persons with disabilities to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":206858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,7292,7712,15584,5731,4712,1107,6565,257,5751,8325,17897,254,10858],"class_list":["post-206857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bill","tag-give","tag-grassroots","tag-health","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-liberians","tag-news","tag-public","tag-sessions","tag-shaping","tag-south-africa-today","tag-voice"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}