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Liberia

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Health workers take a boat across the St. John river in a village in Grand Bassa County during a polio vaccination campaign in Liberia in March 2021.

Every Woman Every Newborn in Liberia

Download the full profile with additional key demographics, progress against milestones, and more.

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Priestina, 6 months, with mother Princess at the UNICEF-supported Louisiana Clinic in 2017.

National mortality targets

Maternal
mortality ratio

520 per 100,000 live births
by 2026

Stillbirth
rate

21 PER 1,000 total births
by 2023

Neonatal mortality rate

27 per 1,000 live births
by 2026

Progress to meet the national maternal, newborn mortality and stillbirth reduction targets

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A health worker picking up megaphones from the Ministry of Health’s National vaccine store in Monrovia, Liberia, in March 2021. Megaphone are often used to broadcast messages about polio and vaccination and upcoming campaign dates.

Progress to meet Every Woman Every Newborn Everywhere coverage targets

MNH Acceleration Plan highlights

Some of Liberia’s MNH Acceleration Plan priorities include:

  • Target vulnerable mothers and newborns in hard to reach communities through outreach services and ensure effective tracking.
  • Ensure health facilities and services are adolescent-friendly by training nurses and midwives in Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health-friendly services as well as creating spaces where possible in eight emergency obstetric and newborn care facilities.
  • Support the generation of reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health data from private health facilities.
  • Strengthen the capacity of sub-national level/county health teams capacity through training on implementation of Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response (MPDSR) guidelines at all levels.
  • Improve availability and storage of essential life-saving MNH supplies, equipment and commodities in 17 Basic Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care facilities (high burden clinics and health centers) and 8 Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care facilities.

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A woman breastfeeds her baby at New Kru Town Adolescents Resource Centre in Mon, Liberia, in March 2024.

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Ummu Paasewe, a mother of two and expecting a third child, stands for a portrait outside her home in Monrovia, Liberia, in March 2021. 

Quality of care in Liberia

As part of its efforts to reduce maternal and newborn mortality and stillbirths, Liberia is taking steps to improve the quality of maternal and newborn health. These include:

  • Support the establishment of network of Maternities and NICUs to provide quality MNH care by upgrading 8 high burden clinics and Health centers to provide (BEmONC-5 clinics) services and 5 facilities to provide comprehensive (CEmONC- 3 health centers) services in five counties (Gbarpolu, Cape Mount, RiverCess, Sinoe, and Montserrado).
  • Support the development and implementation of EmONC monitoring plans for national and subnational levels.

News and events

Resources

Every Woman Every Newborn Everywhere Results Framework, 2022-2025

The Results Framework for EWENE, detailing deliverables for each of the ten milestones: Policy and plans, Investment, Response and Resilience, Quality of care, Health workforce, Medical commodities and devices, Data for Action, Equity, Accountability, Research/innovation/knowledge exchange.

Six years to the SDG deadline: Six actions to reduce unacceptably high maternal, newborn and child deaths and stillbirths

A two-pager published by ENAP EPMM and Child Survival Action ahead of the World Health Assembly 2024.

Guidance on developing national learning health-care systems to sustain and scale up delivery of quality maternal, newborn and child health care