Couples in Uganda are set to benefit from a £7.8 million project which aims to improve access to family planning services.
The project was launched at the Family Planning headquarters in Kampala by Dr Jotham Musinguzi, the director of Partners in Population and Development Africa.
He said the scheme was formulated after gaps in family planning methods were recognised.
"Many women in Uganda want to space their pregnancies but do not use contraception. Many couples do not have access to reproductive health supplies and yet the demand is increasing," he said.
He added the maternal mortality rate should be lowered if couples are given the opportunity to choose the number and spacing of their children.
Uganda has a birth rate of 47.84 per 1,000 population, the second highest in the world. It has the 14th highest AIDS rate in the world at 5.4% of the population.
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