A Collaborative Family Planning Program in Rural Uganda Utilizing Community Health Workers
Hayward, A.; Brown, K.
Rhode Island Medical Journal 102(7): 25-27
2019
ISSN/ISBN: 0363-7913 PMID: 31480815 Document Number: 698824
In 2015, a household survey was conducted in rural eastern Ugandan villages to determine fertility rate, prevalence of childbirth in the hospital setting, use of and unmet need for modern contraception. There remains a high fertility rate as well as high unmet need for contraception in the surveyed villages. However, Uganda Village Project's community health worker-based family planning program has shown promise to address these concerns.
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