𝐋𝐍𝐑𝐂𝐒 𝐓𝐨 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐦𝐩 𝐂𝐎𝐕𝐈𝐃-19 𝐯𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

By Joseph Tumbey 

ADNews- Monrovia: Liberia National Red Cross Society has launched the Saving Lives and Livelihoods 

SLL-RCCE Project to effectively engage communities in four Counties to achieve high vaccination demand  across the Country.

Accordingly, their  Saving Lives and Livelihoods (SLL)  will last  for twelve-months and is a  risk communication and community engagement intervention to accelerate COVID-19 vaccination in Liberia.

It can be recalled, in February 2022, the Ministry of Health in collaboration with the National Public Health Institute and the Liberia Red Cross Society developed a national work plan dubbed “Micro Planning Process” that established the systematic and technical components of SLL-RCCE Project.

Therefore, LNRCS have started their fourth implementing component  of the project aimed at ensuring high vaccine demand in Liberia and complementing the national government’s effort to reach at least 90% vaccination rate.

Given their National status on immunization,  record shows that a little over seven of Liberia’s fifteen counties have very low immunization rates; and the SLL-RCCE Project will be implemented in four of those counties including Grand Gedeh, Gbarpolu, Bomi, and Grand Cape Mount.

In a special remark, the Program Manager on Immunization at the Ministry of Health, Adolphus Clarke hailed the National Red Cross Society’s continuous support to the ministry.

Mr. Clarke placed Liberia’s vaccination rate at 82% and is optimistic that the SLL-RCCE Project will further support the ministry’s efforts to achieve 90% Covid-19 vaccination threshold