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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Linking education and health . . .

"The higher the woman is educated, the higher her chances and those of her child to survive. International studies have shown that a girl studying up to just Primary Seven reduces maternal and child mortality by 50%. In Uganda, of every 100,000 live births, 435 women die and of every 1,000 births, 76 children die.

Imagine what difference it would make to sustain our girls in school just up to Primary Seven!"

Dr Sam Okuonzi, a research fellow with the African Centre for Global Health and Social Transformation and he puts the saying, "educate a woman, educate a nation" into perspective.

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