Why sexual health?
Sexual health today is widely understood as a state of physical, emotional, mental and social wellbeing in relation to sexuality.
Family planning
The promotion of Family Planning in resource poor settings has been identified as a key factor in the Sustainable Development Goals. Contraception or Family Planning is not only key to reproductive health and life provision, it is a human right.
Staff Training
MAMA believes our midwives should be up to date with their skills and knowledge as midwives. Midwives are frontline in delivering healthcare to women and their families so play an important role in improving pregnancy outcomes.
Runga
Runga is MAMA’s latest clinic, established in February 2017, and serving the women of this small fishing village and the surrounding areas on the shores of Lake Albert.
Nkondo II
MAMA’s most recent outreach has taken us back to the shores of Lake Albert to a village called Nkondo II, a fishing village where in the rainy season the village is usually cut off from any health centres and pregnant women are expected to care for themselves and deliver in their home.
Kyarushesha
In 2017 MAMA expanded to provide an outreach clinic in Kyarushasha, another rural village in Hoima District. We see around 85 pregnant mothers every six weeks, plus other women for family planning. We have seen an increase in uptake of family planning over the last six months.
Access and Transportation
Access to maternal health care comes up time and time again in many health reports in reducing maternal mortality in a resource poor setting. The population of women accessing Azur Health Centre come from many afar villages, often walking for miles.
Maternity Waiting Homes
Waiting homes are for expectant mothers to come and wait to go into labour in a designated area so they can receive care from a skilled birth attendant at delivery. And MAMA is happy to announce the opening of their maternity waiting homes, the first two in Hoima district.
Sara & Laura
“We were able to observe finely-tuned, fundamental, midwifery skills being practiced at their best – which, dare I say it, may on occasion be overlooked when technology is readily available. That being said, under-resourcing of essential supplies is a massive issue, which, whilst it may arguably lead to well-honed midwifery skills, is a huge challenge to overcome. Even the most skilled midwife has the odds stacked against them when the region has no O negative blood.”
Stacey
“I was in my final year of midwifery training and I grabbed the opportunity with both hands to go to Uganda… The thing I loved the most was we weren’t there as a team to take over the role of the local midwives, we were there to work together, support them and learn from each other.”