“Success Story: Family Planning Use Increases as Religious Leaders Promote Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancies”

CCIH worked with the Uganda Protestant Medical Bureau in a project supported by USAID’s Advancing Partners and Communities to equip religious leaders in the Anglican Church of Uganda to educate their congregations and communities about family planning. Total new client visits for FP increased by more than 800 percent in total for the four facilities over the project lifespan, from 148 in Quarter 1 to 1,356 in Quarter 7. This success story explores the faith leaders activities and includes testimony from Reverend Charles Irongo, the Archdeacon at the Kyando Anglican Church of Uganda in southeastern Uganda, (shown at left with his wife Edith) about his involvement in the project and why he supports family planning for the health of mothers and children.