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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Monika Pronczuk

As US abruptly ends support, Liberia faces empty health clinics and unplanned pregnancies

Liberia US Aid Cuts - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Five months ago, Roseline Phay, a 32-year-old farmer from the West African nation of Liberia, set off on a quest to find contraceptives.

Phay and her partner have two daughters, and they barely make ends meet. Determined not to have more children, she went to a health worker in her village, but contraception pills, implants and condoms had run out. Phay trekked for hours on red clay roads to the nearest clinic, but they had no contraceptives either.

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