OHAI Country Rep. said, its awareness and oral health education would be heavily focused in mostly rural communities. Further OHAI said, the use of multiple health promotion strategies largely contributed to the break in transmission of the Ebola outbreak. Such challenges he added, are compounded by inadequate resources for health promotion activities across the spectrum of health interventions (NPSPHP 2016-2021). ORAL HEALTH ADVOCACY INITIATIVEOral Health Advocacy Imitative Liberia Country Representative, also asserted that the presence of widespread poverty and underdevelopment in Liberia means that communities are increasingly exposed to all of the major environmental determinants of oral diseases. “Communities are educated about cleft and oral health issues so as to discourage harmful cultural practices associated with cleft.

Source: Front Page Africa July 31, 2020 05:15 UTC