Irene Nabusoba
19 November 2009
Kampala — GOVERNMENTS have been urged to embrace community-based approaches to promote modern contraception.
"We need to focus on community distribution. We have trained community health teams but most of them, like condom distributors, are volunteers. We need to pay them for motivation," said Dr. Richard Nduhura, the health state minister.
Nduhura was on Monday addressing participants at a seminar on financing health-related millennium development goals at Speke Resort in Munyonyo.
Dr. Khama Rogo, a senior health specialist at the World Bank, said: "We need to educate and sensitise the communities to own and participate in the programmes. It is not enough to have family planning supplies in health centres and pharmacies and expect that they will demand them."
About 41% of Ugandan women in the reproductive age (15-49 years) who want to delay, prevent or stop giving birth cannot access effective family planning methods.
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