building resilience can also help mitigate the potential negative effects on the sexual and reproductive health of women and adolescent girls since the first ebola patient presented in monrovia in june the number of new cases was growing every day by august it was topping per week the ministry of health and social welfare was forced to suspend virtually all nonebolarelated activities to focus on managing the crisis the unintended result was that women of reproductive age in liberia experienced some of the worst fallout from ebola regardless of their own infection status