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Liberia
© UNICEF/UN0533204/ Benson Ibeabuchi. Health workers take a boat across the St. John river to vaccinate children against polio in a village in Grand Bassa County during the ongoing Polio Vaccination in Liberia. 26, March 2021.
Every Woman Every Newborn in Liberia
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Priestina, 6 months, with mother Princess at the UNICEF-supported Louisiana Clinic for three weeks. Priestina has a cough and hasn’t been eating. She is screened for malnutrition and tested for a suspected lower respiratory tract infection.
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, on 25 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, on 21 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, on March 29, 2021. “My baby will get the polio vaccine for sure,” she said of the oral polio vaccine, “both my girls are vaccinated.”
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. (Link to the quality of care internal page). 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.
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