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Tag Archives: Charles Kiggundu

Experts cautious as activists push for access to abortion drug

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Activists are calling for easing of restrictions on dispensing abortion drug mifepristone, as the world commemorates international safe abortion day. The day is marked on September 28, every year to remind the world of women’s right to access safe and legal abortion. It is based …

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Women abandon crude methods for drugs to procure unsafe abortion

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Women are increasingly using medical drugs to procure abortions. But even then a sizeable number is using the medication inaccurately. Medical doctors have said. Charles Kiggundu a consultant gynecologist at Kawempe National Referral hospital says that unlike before where women would use herbal concoctions and …

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