Monrovia,, Sept. 9 -- Maxine Lussine didn't expect two men to run her group session that day. Her usual facilitator, Ms. Juwa, was gone. In her place stood Jerome Naa Wlalee and a colleague.

By Patience M. Jones, patience.jones@frontpageafricaonline.com

"They started talking about how boys also have a part to play in menstruation," said the 17-year-old from Old Road, a member of a peer support group under Healing Bridge Liberia. "For our setting, where I grew up, I've never seen my dad really taking part in menstruation and all that. So it was really confusing to me, because those are things I've seen in movies."

That confusion is the wall Healing Bridge is trying to knock down. In Liberia, periods, sex, and reproductive health have lo...