OBSTACLES AND CHALLENGES TO PROPER REPRODUCTIVE AND MATERNAL HEALTH CARE IN UGANDA

The research focused on establishing the obstacles to proper reproductive and maternal health in Uganda. Uganda. The study aimed at providing a clear basis for policy measures so as to reduce or curb down the high and rapidly growing child and maternal mortality rates in the country. The study used secondary data from the 2002 AYA baseline survey by Makerere University in collaboration with the Program for Appropriate a Technology for Health (PATH), Pathfinders International and UNFPA and the UDHS data sets, 2002 and 2006. The researcher used both univariate and bivariate analysis. In bivariate analysis Correlations and Chi square test was also used to measure the degree of association between the dependant variable and the independent variables.
The results show that 40% of the women don’t receive antenatal care from government hospitals and only 16% Receive antenatal care from these hospitals. Health care from government health care centers was not received by 28% and 29% of them did receive the services from these hospitals. 2% of the women were reported to having received antenatal care from Traditional birth attendants. Postpartum care is an important exercise a mother and child should go through after giving birth for proper and better health. Unfortunately 73.9% of the women in Uganda r