Embrace safe mother- hood:
Facts about Commodities for Reproductive Health
  • 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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