MONROVIA, Nov. 9 -- Liberia could experience an additional 323 maternal deaths annually, alongside more than 107,600 unintended pregnancies and 37,800 unsafe abortions, if reductions in United States and Swedish funding for family planning and sexual and reproductive health services continue, according to a new report by the Guttmacher Institute.

By Gerald C. Koinyeneh

The report, titled "More Than Just the Numbers: How Funding Cuts Threaten Sexual and Reproductive Health in Liberia," warns that the country has lost at least US$2.4 million in family planning and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) support since 2025, leaving hundreds of thousands of women and couples at risk of losing access to contraception and other essen...