{"id":230419,"date":"2026-04-15T14:37:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T12:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leone-can-sierra-leone-keep-its-mothers-alive\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T14:37:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T12:37:06","slug":"sierra-leone-can-sierra-leone-keep-its-mothers-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leone-can-sierra-leone-keep-its-mothers-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone: Can Sierra Leone Keep Its Mothers Alive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\"><em>It&#8217;s been a year since the US government&#8217;s aid cuts sent shock waves around the world. But in one maternity hospital in Freetown it&#8217;s the loss of UK funding that threatens to unravel years of steady progress to address maternal mortality.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sierra Leone once had the third-highest maternal mortality rate in the world \u2014 but since 2000, maternal deaths have fallen by nearly 80%, largely credited to foreign aid.<\/li>\n<li>But that was before US President Donald Trump&#8217;s stop-work order in January 2025 cut USAID&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604150156.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Sierra Leone\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/\">Sierra Leone<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a year since the US government&#8217;s aid cuts sent shock waves around the world. But in one maternity hospital in Freetown it&#8217;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 \u2014 but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":230420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1109],"tags":[258,256,10269,6572,9021,257,6571,1135,254],"class_list":["post-230419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alive","tag-leone","tag-mothers","tag-news","tag-sierra","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}