Child and Adolescent Health
We are building brighter tomorrows, one child at a time—empowering families and shaping healthier futures in the heart of the communities we serve.
Our Impact
PIH Liberia improves child and adolescent health by reducing mortality, managing chronic illness, and integrating youth-friendly care into community and primary health systems.
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19,280+Child Vaccinationsadministered in 2024
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6,826Women and girls reachedThrough outreach efforts across 80 communities in 2024.
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370+Social Support Packagesdistributed in support of child health in 2024
Elizabeth Wreh, a Senior Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Officer, and Amos B. Payne, a Community Health Promoter at PIH Liberia, conducted a data validation session with Nattie N. Nango, a service provider at the James Jenkins Dossen (JJD) Youth Friendly Center (YFC). The eight YFCs provide family planning services, including education and counseling, to adolescents in Maryland County.
Child and Adolescent Health
Our child and adolescent health programs focus on community—and facility-based interdisciplinary care to reduce neonatal mortality, prevent causes of under-5 mortalities, reduce morbidity and mortality for children with chronic diseases, and effectively engage adolescents by integrating youth-friendly services in primary care systems. In 2024, outreach efforts reached 6,826 women and girls through 120 sessions in 80 communities more than five kilometers from the nearest health facility. These sessions focused on highlighting the importance of Family Planning (FP) services, distributing and administering contraceptive commodities, and dispelling myths and misconceptions about contraceptive use.
Why focus on child health?
Each year, nearly 4.9 million children die before reaching their fifth birthday. More than half of these deaths are caused by conditions that are preventable or treatable, including pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria, measles, and malnutrition.
About 600 children are infected with HIV each day, the vast majority of whom reside in poor countries. Most of these infants could be protected from infection through effective testing and treatment, as they are in wealthy countries, where mother-to-child transmission of HIV has been nearly eliminated.
Partners In Health Liberia is on a mission to change that.
