Sierra Leone: Can Sierra Leone Keep Its Mothers Alive?

It’s been a year since the US government’s aid cuts sent shock waves around the world. But in one maternity hospital in Freetown it’s the loss of UK funding that threatens to unravel years of steady progress to address maternal mortality.

• Sierra Leone once had the third-highest maternal mortality rate in the world — but since 2000, maternal deaths have fallen by nearly 80%, largely credited to foreign aid.
• But that was before US President Donald Trump’s stop-work order in January 2025 cut USAID…