Uganda: Country Needs Fertility Regulation Policy

13 October 2009
opinion

Kampala — THE time has come for Uganda to come up with policies to regulate fertility as a way of controlling the sprawling population growth rate.

With an average of 3,000 babies born daily, it is increasingly becoming difficult for the Government, donors and other stakeholders to meet the basic needs of the more than 30 million Ugandans. Matters are not helped by the worsening climatic conditions, themselves a result of the uncontrolled population growth.

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