Africa: Leaders Around the World Commit Support for Voluntary Family Planning

Kate Opio, 33, was buoyant, cuddling one of her newborn twins in the maternity ward at a health centre in Uganda's Apac District. The other twin slept peacefully beside them. But this lovely moment almost didn't happen, Ms. Opio's midwife explained. All three nearly died in childbirth.

"Ms. Opio experienced a cervical dystocia, a condition where the cervix stops enlarging, making it difficult for the baby to come out," Margret Nabukenya said. "We had to make a quick decision to get her to [the operating] theatre for a Caesarean to save the life of mother and babies."

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