FOWODE TRAINS YOUNG WOMEN YET AGAIN!!

30 young women have completed a 3 weeks training by FOWODE in trans formative leadership aimed at promoting pro-poor and pro-women ideals through which alternative values, visions and leaders can be nurtured and shaped in Uganda. Many who received this leadership training in the past are engaged in various leadership positions in institutions of higher learning, political leadership and within their communities.

MATERNAL HEALTH

1. Problem Analysis

Maternal health; refers to the health of a woman; before she becomes pregnant, during pregnancy, child birth and in the period following delivery especially the first 6 weeks (post partum period). Health care that ascertains maternal health therefore encompasses health care prior to conceiving, during pregnancy, childbirth during the first 6 weeks following delivery, newborn care is part of health care because ensuring that the baby is born alive and healthy will encourage a mother to make proper reproductive health decisions, especially those pertaining to family planning.

Uganda’s population growth rate is at 3.2%[1] making it the highest in the world after Niger and Timor with a fertility rate of 6.9 children for every woman in reproductive age in 2001 and 6.7 in 2006. Out of 100,000 women who give birth every year 435 do not make it out of the labor ward alive[2].This translates into loss of about 6000 women annually due to