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Uganda: 'Moonbeads Solution to Family Planning'
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The Monitor (Kampala)
28 March 2008
Posted to the web 28 March 2008
Joseph Mugisa
Kyenjojo
RELIGIOUS leaders in Kyenjojo District have resolved to promote the use of Moonbeads as a family planning method.
The resolution was made at a consultative meeting organised by UPHOLD in Kyenjojo last week.
UPHOLD is a five year Usaid funded programme, that builds the capacities of NGO's to better delivery of social services in the areas of education, HIV and health.
Dr Anthony Mugisa, a specialist in reproductive health working with UPHOLD, said the meeting was intended to create a bridge between religious leaders and health workers in matters concerning child spacing.
"We health workers believe religious leaders are good channels of communication. This is the reason we asked them to help us in this crucial programme of child spacing," Dr Mugisa said.
He asked the religious leaders to add to their sermons messages about the use of Moonbeads a natural family planning method, which he said doesn't conflict with their religious doctrines.
Moonbeads are a string of coloured beads that can help a woman know her fertile days. There are 32 beads of different colour, which represent a woman's menstrual cycle. Each bead is a day of the cycle.
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The clerics were drawn from the Anglican, Catholic, Seventh Day Adventists, Pentecostal churches and the Muslim faith.
According to Dr Mugisa, poor child spacing accounts for high infant and maternal mortality rates in the district of Kyenjojo and the entire country.
The religious leaders said they welcome the use of moon beads as a method of birth control, but said male involvement was important.
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