Voluntary, rights-based family planning upholds women's right to determine freely the number and spacing of their children. However, low-resource settings like Uganda still face a high unmet need for family planning. And, while urban areas are often indicated to have better access to health services, emerging evidence is revealing intra-urban socio-economic differentials in family planning utilization.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Most pregnant women living in urban slum communities in Uganda deliver at public health centers that are not equipped to provide emergency obstetric and newborn care. When obstetric emergencies occur, pregnant women are referred to a higher-level facility and are responsible for arranging and paying for their own transport. The Kampala Slum Maternal Newborn (MaNe) project developed and tested an emergency call and ambulance dispatch center and a mobile application to request, deploy, and track ambulances.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: It is assumed that the health conditions of urban women are superior to their rural counterparts. However, evidence from Asia and Africa, show that poor urban women and their families have worse access to antenatal care and facility childbirth compared to the rural women. The maternal, newborn, and child mortality rates as high as or higher than those in rural areas.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Uganda adopted the Integrated Management of Malaria (IMM) guidelines, which require testing all suspected cases of malaria prior to treatment and which have been implemented throughout the country. However, adherence to IMM guidelines has not been explicitly investigated, especially in lakeshore areas such as Buyende and Kaliro, two districts that remain highly burdened by malaria. This study assesses the level of adherence to IMM guidelines and pinpoints factors that influence IMM adherence by health providers in Buyende and Kaliro.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Several interventions have been put in place to promote access to quality malaria case management services in Uganda's private sector, where most people seek treatment. This paper describes evidence using a mixed-method approach to examine the role, readiness and performance of private providers at a national level in Uganda. These data will be useful to inform strategies and policies for improving malaria case management in the private sector.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Between 2001 and 2006, IUD use in Uganda stagnated at 0.2% among women of reproductive age (WRA) ages 15-49. By 2011, IUD use had increased slightly to 0.
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