Girls Empowering Girls Project
Menstrual Health Hygiene is both a human rights and a health issue, where women and girls are entitled to live a life of dignity. In Uganda, insufficient Menstrual Hygiene Management…
Girls Empowering Girls: 5,800 school girls from fishing communities to benefit from menstrual hygiene management education.
Family Medical Point has launched a menstrual hygiene management intervention aimed at reaching 5800 school girls in Uganda. The intervention will provide a school-wide training and mentorship on menstrual hygiene…
CarePlus: FMP Trains Service Providers and Community Peer Mobilizers in key fishing communities
Family Medical Point conducted a Values Clarification and Attitude Transformation training for the CarePlus Project partner medical facilities, Community Peer Mobilisers from Kasenyi, Kiggungu, Nakiwoogo and Guuda landing sites as…
World AIDS Day 2022 – FMP and partners deliver awareness and services to fishing communities.
Fishing communities are disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS and currently shoulder 75% of the new infections in Uganda according to the Uganda Demographic Survey report, 2016. FMP has for over 05…
FMP Launches CarePlus Project to Respond to SRH needs of Young Girls and Sex Workers in Fishing Landing Sites.
Fishing communities are a beehive of activities and within that nest of nonstop commercial engagements are thousands of young girls and sex workers whose sexual and reproductive health needs are…
CarePlus Project
Majoriene, 22, visited FMP outreach at Kasenyi fishing landing site (FLS), one of the busiest FLS in L. Victoria with an estimated daily population of 4,000 people. Majoriene approached the…
Family planning a life-saving intervention for young girls trafficked and trapped in fishing landing sites
Family Medical Point’s moonlight outreach to Kasenyi fishing landing site supported this need! “In this overly populated commercial sex work setting, family planning will help me take care of my…
FMP Equips nurses with skills on social media promotion of family Planning
Young people are diverse and so are their sexual and reproductive health needs. These people require information and/or access to modern and emergency contraception, HIV and STI (sexually transmitted infection)…
Knock – Knock! A Social Media Campaign Loading!
FMP team spent an evening with Makerere University Kampala students discussing their fears and likes about modern family planning methods. The team, led by Eunice Amon, FMP’s Programmes Coordinator, was…
Menstrual Hygiene is a human right in the eyes of every girl.
May 28 is Menstrual Hygiene Day (MH Day); a key calendar day for FMP dedicated to bringing awareness around the vital role that good menstrual hygiene management plays in empowering women and adolescent…
