By Benna Aguti and Gloria Anena | Clinical Officers
Dear friends,
Family planning remains a big focus of service delivery for the health facility. Fertility is still high and there has been-a slow decline over the years. In this community child bearing starts early (39% of women aged 20-49 years give birth by 18 years & 63% by 20 years). And fertility decreases with increase in a woman`s education and wealth levels.
The UDHS 2011 reports states that 99% of women and 100% of men are knowledgeable about any modern Family Planning method. Most messages about family planning is disseminated through the radio, although this can be a challenge because not many people own radios in their homes. Statistics show that 34% of married women have unmet need for Family Planning.
In order to understand the status of the people seeking family planning services in the community, the outreach team carried out a research to see how best we can address the high fertility rates in the community. Our research shows that most households use communal wells that are unprotected for their source of water, most households live in mud and wattle homes. Most households have an average income/expenditure income of less than 4000/= per day. This means that type of clients that are not highly educated and thus cannot read billboard messages that are displayed on the highway roads.
When 15 years old Pi-Tic Enulce walked into the clinic for family planning services the health staff assigned to her realized how much information is still needed out in the community about contraceptives. The UDHS 2011 asserts that the unmet need for family planning is 41% in Uganda. With the support we have received from donors like yourselves, we are increasing the outreaches that we conduct.
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