By the end of 2022 Liberia’s COVID-19 vaccination rate was among the top three in Africa, at 81%. The country had also, at the height of the pandemic, introduced two new vaccines, immunizing more than 1.8 million children against polio and nearly 400 000 against typhoid.
Read moreOn 16 March 2020, Liberia registered its first case of COVID-19. Like other countries, it grappled with the pandemic, prompting the government to implement various strategies to respond and contain the outbreak.
Read moreMonrovia, 14 August 2023 - In celebration of Liberia's observance of World Breastfeeding Week, the Vice President of the Republic of Liberia Chief Dr. Jewel Howard Taylor who is also Liberia’s WHO 75 Health Champion is a…
Read moreMonrovia, 27 July 2023: The World Health Organization (WHO) and partners continue to support Liberia's Ministry of Health (MoH) to revolutionize the country's emergency health system and enhance the quality-of-service de…
Read moreMonrovia, 24 July 2023 - Liberia has been battling the COVID-19 pandemic for over three years since the first case of SARS-CoV-2 was reported in the country on 16th March 2020. The government has tirelessly worked to imp…
Read moreMonrovia, 19 July 2023 - The Ministry of Health in Liberia has successfully concluded a three-day COVID-19 pandemic response After Action Review (AAR) symposium in Monrovia with all the sectors that were involved in and/…
Read moreIn a rapidly changing world where emerging and re-emerging diseases pose potential risks to public health, genomic sequencing has been identified as one of the tools that aids in the rapid identification of variants of c…
Read moreMonrovia, 23 June — As Liberia tackled community transmission of COVID-19 in 2022 rapid diagnostic testing of community members in locations where newly confirmed cases were reported proved instrumental in bre…
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