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The staff at Life for Mothers is currently analyzing the data gathered during Phase I of our pilot project. We hope to complete our analysis in the next few weeks and prepare it for publication. All results from our analysis … Continue reading →

July 29, 2011 By CELIA W. DUGGER ARUA, Uganda — Jennifer Anguko was slowly bleeding to death right in the maternity ward of a major public hospital. Only a lone midwife was on duty, the hospital later admitted, and no … Continue reading →

Maternal/neonatal mortality rate is unacceptably high in rural Uganda where 90% of the population lives. Poverty, low education levels, and high rates of childbirths characterize this population with almost 7 births per woman, minimal family planning (FP), and lack of … Continue reading →

Life For Mothers (LfM) recently completed its Pilot Project in Busujju County, Mityana, Uganda. The project involved going to 25 villages using 25 Village Health Teams (2 community health workers per team) and enrolling the household into an electronic database. … Continue reading →

Following multiple training sessions on using mobile phones for data collection as well as formal workshops on HIV/AIDS, Family Planning, Reproductive/Maternal Health and Child Survival, Village Health Teams have been dispatched into the field to register and collect data from … Continue reading →

Monday, March 14th The 25 VHTs continued the intensive HIV/AIDS/Family Planning training course with AIC which began on Friday, March 11th. AIC affiliates led the training. As with the previous training days, lunch was provided and once training had finished, … Continue reading →

Monday, March 7th On Monday, LfM had a meeting with Mr. Anthony Katamba (General Manager of Legal & Corporate  Services) at MTN headquarters where I made a formal presentation of the pilot project to his team. He was enthusiastic regarding … Continue reading →

Monday, February 28th On Monday, I met with Dr. Hugh Cameron at Makerere University to discuss the development and progress of the software to be used on the VHTs’ mobile phones. Later, I met with Alexander Kasendwa at MTN headquarters … Continue reading →

Monday, February 21st I spoke with Hon. Sylvia Ssinabulya regarding the role of William Nabangi, Clinical Officer and Coordinator of the Village Health Teams (VHTs) in the recruitment of additional community health workers (CHWs) to complete the necessary number of … Continue reading →

Monday, February 14th, 2011 In the morning, I drove up from Kampala again to the Mwera Health Center IV. I met with Honorable Sylvia Ssinabulya (the female Parliamentarian from Mityana and, also, an LfM Board Member). She took time out … Continue reading →