High-risk mothers are being encouraged to stay in a safe and clean ‘maternity waiting home’ to ensure their deliveries are assisted by skilled birth attendants to reduce the dangers of childbirth in remote rural areas of Liberia

It is estimated that 2 in 10 youth in Liberia are users of narcotic substances.

“The emotional pain I had to endure after being diagnosed with obstetric fistula is indescribable,” says fistula survivor Mercy Benson.