I spent a week in Uganda reporting on women's health - here's everything I learned
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Over the past 20 years, contraceptive use in Uganda has increased from approximately 11% to 30%. Yet, women are still faced with major barriers to family planning, including misinformation that birth control causes cancer and increases promiscuity.
I traveled to Uganda as a fellow of the UN Foundation for a week in August.
As part of the fellowship, I traveled to clinics in rural villages, stopped by outreach efforts in slum areas, met with sex workers, and spoke with women about birth control, pregnancy and delivery, and marriage.
Here's what I learned about women's health in Uganda.
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