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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.
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Priestina, 6 months, with mother Princess at the UNICEF-supported Louisiana Clinic in 2017.
In 2026, the priorities in Liberia’s MNH Acceleration Plan include:
Strengthen maternal, perinatal , neonatal + child death surveillance and response (MPNCDSR) systems with a specific focus on quality reviews around the perinatal period and accelerating the response phase.
Improve the emergency obstetric and newborn care (EmONC) referral system to eliminate delays between the onset of complications and facility-based care.
Enhance the utilization of individualized and systemic maternal and newborn health data to update target setting, simplify reporting, and drive quality of care metrics.
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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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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.
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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.
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:
First webinar in a four-part series sharing lessons from the Accelerating Measurable Progress and Leveraging Investments for Postpartum Hemorrhage Impact (AMPLI-PPHI) project. Organized by Jhpiego.
An event during the WHA79 to share high-level messages from the EWENE-Child Survival Action progress report.
A reception during WHA79
See also: ‘From Dashboard to Delivery: Strengthening Maternal & Newborn Data to Reflect Community Realities‘, the poster that the Liberia delegation presented at the International Maternal Newborn Health Conference 2026.
For the Seventy-ninth World Health Assembly
These messages were developed by the United Advocacy Working Group for Maternal, Newborn and Child health.
Posters presented by 40 country delegations at the International Maternal Newborn Health Conference 2026.
International Maternal Newborn Health
Conference (IMNHC) 2026
These key messages and advocacy asks are intended to equip partners with evidence-based messaging and
resources in the context of IMNHC 2026.