Uganda: Family Planning - Country Walks a Wobbly Path

15 November 2009

Kampala — THAT Uganda loses 16 mothers to pregnancy and childbirth everyday is as strange as it is true. To put facts into perspective, this is an equivalent of losing a commuter taxi full of expectant mothers everyday.

"People will make 'noise' when a taxi kills the (expectant) women than when they die while delivering," says Charles Zirarema, the acting Population Secretariat director.

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