FHS Uganda meets with Ministry of Health

On May 4, the FHS Uganda team attended the monthly meeting of the Maternal and Child Health (MCH) cluster at the Ministry of Health in Kampala. These meetings bring together both governmental and non-governmental stakeholders in the area of maternal and child health to discuss issues ranging from policy influence and research uptake to ongoing or planned studies on MCH. According to the FHS Uganda team leader Dr Elizabeth Ekirapa-Kiracho, “the monthly MCH meetings offer an opportunity for us to share our findings and if possible get buy in from these stakeholders.”

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Pregnant women in Bengal to be given dietary supplement

Yesterday, the Telegraph of India reported that "Pregnant women from economically challenged families in areas of Bengal will be given a 1,000-day dietary supplement by the state government to battle malnutrition." The article highlighted previous research from FHS which showed that "52 per cent of children in the Sunderbans are stunted"

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Letter to Inter-Parliamentary Union delegates on maternal and child health

In an OpEd in the nationally circulated Daily Monitor in Uganda, Kakaire Ayub Kirunda, FHS Uganda Communications Officer, publishes an open letter to the Inter-Parliamentary Union, who were meeting in Kampala earlier that week.

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