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Essential Maternal and Newborn Clinical Care Guidelines for Uganda, May 2022
Health Systems
Sexual and Reproductive Health
Description
For Uganda to achieve its SDG targets requires steepening the rate of MMR declined by��5.5% to achieve <140/100,000 by 2030, IMR has to reduce to at least 12 per 1000 live births and U5MR to 25 per 1000 live births by 2030. The MPDSR report for the FY 2020/2021 shows that the three major causes of institutional maternal deaths are hemorrhage, abortion complications, and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy