The growth of cellphone use, particularly in the developing world, is providing health experts with a new channel of communication to provide family planning information.
The wife to Kenyan Prime Minister, Ida Odinga, has called on all nations to boost the nutritional needs of their populations, especially that of mothers and infants, as a strategy of achieving sustainable development.
AT least 30,000 children are born with HIV in Uganda every year, the AIDS control programme manager in the health ministry, Dr. Zainab Akol, has said.
Barclays Bank partnered with Virika Hospital to sponsor nutrition education among pregnant women who are HIV-positive.
First Lady, Hajiya Turai Yara'Adua, has called on policy makers to focus on issues that would reduce child and maternal mortality rate in the country.
A decline in fertility rate among Ugandan women over the next 30 years can help slow the country's fast growing population, a medical doctor has said.
UGANDA is among the nine developing countries in Africa and Asia that will benefit from a $12m (over sh21b) family planning and women's reproductive health project.
THE shortage of contraceptives essential to family planning is responsible for their poor use, a senior official in the health ministry has said.
Poor health facilities and poverty have been blamed for the high rate of maternal mortality in Africa.
The First Lady, Hajiya Turai Yar 'Adua, has embarked on an advocacy visit to improve maternal and child survival in the country.
GOVERNMENTS have been urged to embrace community-based approaches to promote modern contraception.
When a woman is expecting a baby it is supposed to be a blissful and delightful experience, but for many the magic they feel at bringing a little one into the world, quickly turns into a nightmare as they struggle to cope with the changes that come along with motherhood.
ABOUT 56% of all pregnancies in Uganda are unplanned due to lack of access to modern family planning methods.
Politicians, teachers and Catholic Church leaders are not amused: Married women in central Kenya do not want to have any more babies.
In Uganda, induced abortion is permitted only when continuation of a pregnancy would endanger a woman's life. The country's major religions too, outlaw the practice. Because of this, it is often practiced in secret, with many women having to rely on practitioners who use dangerous methods under unsanitary conditions. An estimated illegal 300,000 abortions are said to occur annually in the country. ...
