UGANDA: Women MPs United Against Child Deaths
The Observer reported on 31 August that, "Women legislators from southern and eastern Africa want their parliaments to improve the debate on maternal and child health. Meeting in Kampala this week during the Southern and East African Parliamentary Alliance of Committees of Health (SEAPACOH) assembly, the MPs said they specifically wanted the country’s budgets to be informed by the debates on maternal and child health. The meeting brought together MPs from Uganda, Ethiopia, Ghana, Botswana, Mali, Nigeria, Namibia and Malawi...According to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), at least 200 million women want to use safe and effective planning methods but are unable because of inadequate information and services and the support of their husbands and communities. In addition, more than 50 million of the estimated 190 million women who become pregnant each year have abortions under unsafe conditions." Read in English: The Observer