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Budget Too Small To Cover Health Needs

Posted in Business of Health Care, tagged , , , , on March 15, 2011 | Comments Off

I read an interesting article on allAfrica.com, written by Miriam Gathigah, about the state of the health budget in Kenya. Essentially it seems that the government of Kenya has reduced the percentage of the national budget, USD 12.5b, allocated to the health sector from 7% to 6.5%. Botswana and the Seychelles are the only African [...]

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5,800 Mums and 100,000 Babies die every year in Uganda

Posted in Suubi Trust, tagged , , , , on August 1, 2010 | Comments Off

16 women die every day in Uganda while giving birth or during pregnancy; that’s 5,800 deaths each year. Many more suffer from complications and childbirth injuries such as VVF. Each year 100,000 babies die at birth, that’s 76 deaths per 1,000 live births. The shame of these numbers is that these deaths are, on the [...]

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