Andrew Stephenson – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Andrew Stephenson on 2015-10-29.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps her Department is taking to support women’s reproductive healthcare in Liberia.

Mr Desmond Swayne

Since 2008 DFID has been supporting the Government of Liberia to deliver health services and has committed over £28m. This includes an additional £6m funding announced at the UN conference on post-Ebola recovery in July 2015.

Roughly half of our funding is specifically targeted towards health services for women and children, including during pregnancy and for childbirth, and to purchase drugs including contraceptives and other family planning products.