family planning and education to reduce the maternal mortality rate, and initiated Gambia's response to the AIDS epidemic in 1987 with the establishment of a National AIDS Control Program. She also oversaw the implementation of a cost recovery program in accordance with the Bamako Initiative adopted by African Health Ministers in 1987 to accelerate primary healthcare. N'Jie was a member of the PPP's Central Committee and led the formation of a Women's Bureau. In 1989, she led a delegation to Havana to the World Conference on Women. She founded and led the Soroptimist Society and was president of the Gambia Red Cross Society for ten years. In 1991, she was one of the few PPP members to encourage party leader Dawda Jawara to retire. N'Jie retired from politics in 1992. She died on 2 May 2014 in Bakau. Personal life N'Jie married Denis Ebrima N'Jie, the Gambia's first dental surgeon, in the United Kingdom in 1950 and they had one son who died in 1997. She was a committed Christian and active in local churches throughout her life. Awards and honours N'Jie was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in June 1963. In 2015, on the fiftieth anniversary of Gambia's independence from Britain, she was named by The Standard as one of "50 prominent Gambians who helped to shape the nation." References 1922 births 2014 deaths People from Banjul Government ministers of the Gambia People's Progressive Party (Gambia) politicians Gambian feminists Members of the House of Representatives of the Gambia Gambian activists Gambian women's rights activists Alumni of Achimota School Alumni of the University of Oxford Gambian Christians Gambian Creole people Members of the Order of the British Empire 20th-century Gambian women politicians Women government ministers of the Gambia Environment ministers of the Gambia