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Graciana Jala takes bold step that opens doors for Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) in the small Catholic community of Njimafor – Bamenda in the Northwest Region of Cameroon. By Fombong Comfort WACameroon   Introduction It is generally understood that the Roman Catholic Church has ever remained much closed when it comes to the issue of sexuality education and birth control. The Church is intransigent about the use of any form of contraception, be it for birth control or disease prevention. This firm stand has often been a big challenge to penetrating Catholic circles with useful sexuality education especially targeting young people despite available evidence that this could lead to drop in rates of unwanted pregnancies and STIs. The small Catholic community of Njimafor in Bamenda – Capital of the North West region is a good case in point. Whereas, young Catholic faithful continue to seek information on the topic from, often doubtful sources such as Television, Pe...