Liberia, April 16 -- Summary:

By Gloria Wleh with New Narratives

DUAZON, Margibi County -  On a recent weekday, L. had just ended her four days of monthly menstruation. The next day the 18-year-old walked into a small drug store beside the main road here as she does every month. With no prescription, she asked the drug dispenser for the antibiotic metronidazole, known as white flagyl..

After asking briefly what her symptoms were the dispenser handed over the medication. FrontPage Africa/New Narratives is only using the woman's first initial to protect her from stigma.

L. was just doing what more than nine in every ten women in Liberia are doing every month according to an alarming new survey by FrontPage Africa/New Narrative...