Advancing Safe Abortion rights in Uganda through Strategic Litigation
Aruho Amon, Doctoral Researcher, Center for Human Rights, University of Pretoria.
Abstract.
Uganda has one of the highest burdens of unsafe abortion-related mortality and morbidity in Africa. It is estimated that over 250,000 abortions are performed in the country yearly, mostly under unsafe conditions. Despite...
Background:
Persistent structural and socio-cultural inequities in family planning (FP) access continue to undermine universal sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) goals in Sub-Saharan Africa, disproportionately affecting adolescents, persons with disabilities (PWDs), and forcibly displaced populations.
In response, the Dutch-funded, UNFPA-supported Advancing Sexual and...
Abstract
Background: Severe mental illness (SMI) is one mental, behavioral, or emotional disorder resulting in serious functional impairment, which substantially interferes with or limits one or more major life activities. SMIs include schizophrenia, bipolar affective disorder and recurrent major depressive disorders and result into serious functional impairment and influence uptake of...
Background : Maternal mortality remains high in Cameroon, with 406 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births according to the DHS 2018. Also, the Far North of Cameroon is a region where access to reproductive healthcare remains low, due to a number of factors (cultural, religious, social, geographical, environmental, etc), but also to the context of insecurity due to Boko Haram. Yet family...
