The Law, Family Planning and Maternal Health in Uganda

It is almost taboo to discuss abortion in Uganda, yet some 300,000 women seek them in Uganda, with about 85,000 receiving treatment from complications of unsafe abortions.

A woman being taken to hospital to deliver

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