Embrace safe mother- hood:

• Only 2%-6% of funds allocated for contraceptives are spent
• Poor reproductive health accounts for up to 20% of Uganda’s burden of disease.
• Everyday 16 women die in child birth, 6,000 die each year from pregnancy related complications most of which are preventable if women had access to family planning.
• The health budget framework paper indicate plans to recruit an additional 1000 health workers in 2011/20112.
• 32% of the total burden of disease for women of reproductive age.
• Newborn deaths contribute 40% of all deaths of under-fives.
• Many maternal deaths can be avoided if women who do not want children use contraceptives
• Only 28.7% of government spending goes to reproductive health.
• One in every 13 babies born in Uganda does not live to the first birthday.
• 46% of women cite unavailability of medications their most serious problem in accessing health care
• Only 35% in Uganda are weighed at birth; 11% babies are underweight at birth.
• Uganda has only 6 active Local Phamacuetical Manufacturers working at around installed 50% capacity.

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