Reproductive Health Uganda

This website presentation presents highlights of the fifty years of the Family Planning Association of Uganda (FPAU’s) service to the people of Uganda. It shows the journey that we in the family planning movement have traveled from 1957 to 2007.

For a long time FPAU was limited to issues related to information and access to family planning services. FPAU has always strongly believed that the right to information on family planning methods is a fundamental human right. This right is reflected in several international human rights instruments, for example, the Convention on Civil and Political rights.

Within that understanding, FPAU has promoted the right to make free and informed decisions about fundamental aspects of one’s life and whether and when to have children. Realizing that access to information is vital to allowing individuals to make decisions about the size and wellbeing of their families FPAU has for the last fifty years concentrated on giving that information. Today, FPAU is a lead organization in the provision of sexual and reproductive health services in Uganda.