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12:38, 20 August 2008
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Uganda

Uganda
Marie Stopes Uganda & Marie Stopes International Uganda
Date established 1990 and 1995 respectively
Contact details Marie Stopes Uganda (clinics)
P.O.Box 10431
Plot 16 Bukasa Road
Namuwongo.
Kampala
Uganda

Telephone: + 256 41 434 7129
Email: thomas.mega@mariestopes.or.ug

Marie Stopes International Uganda (social marketing)
P.O. Box 3557
Plot No. 1020, Kisugu
Muyenga
Kampala
Uganda

Telephone: + 256 41 451 0516 /337
Email: namayanja.christine@msiu.or.ug
Services offered Family planning; health screening; HIV/STIs; maternal health; primary health care; post abortion care; refugees/IDPs; social marketing; young people
Number of clinics 16
Outreach / mobile services Yes
Social marketing products & brands Condoms: Lifeguard Blue; Liefguard Pink

Pregnancy test: Easy Life Pregnancy Test Strips
Major partners Ministry of Health; Market Vendors Aids Project (MAVAP) with Uganda Cares
Major donors Ministry of Health; UK Department for International Development (DFID); European Community; United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA); KfW Entwicklungsbank; Direct Relief International; International Planned Parenthood (IPPF); The Brush Foundation

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Highlights

  • only provider in the country of long term and permanent methods of family planning via outreach
  • opened 4 new clinics in 2007 Soroti, Hoima, Fort Portal, Masaka
  • MAVAP selected as one of only 10 projects to be visited by delegates of Commonwealth Heads of Government in November
  • sold more than 20 million condoms last year, accounting for nearly 60% of the private market. 144 million condoms sold in total since the social marketing project was launched

Future plans

  • further expansion of outreach services (long term and permanent family planning methods) to remote rural communities
  • development of the male circumcision initiative in partnership with several other key NGOs
  • merger with Marie Stopes International Uganda to form a single organisation in Uganda in order to become even more effective and provide a more integrated service for clients
  • broaden the social marketing product range

 

MSI Uganda fact sheet

 

Key statistics for Uganda

Source: UNFPA State of world population 2007
Total population (millions) (2007) 30.9
Average population growth rate (%) (2005 - 2010) 3.6
Projected population (millions) (2050) 126.9
Life expectancy (M / F) 50.7 / 52.3
Total fertility rate (2007) 7.11
% contraceptive prevalence: any method 23
% contraceptive prevalence: modern methods 18
Births per 1,000 women aged 15-19 203
% births with skills attendants 39
Maternal mortality ratio (per 100,000 live births) 880
Infant mortality total per 1,000 live births 77
Under 5 mortality (M / F) 135 / 121
HIV prevalence rate (%) (15-49) M / F 5.6 / 7.7
Health expenditure public (% of GNP) 2.2
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