NORTHERN PROVINCE GAKENKE — Over 500 residents including men and women in Nemba sector, Gakenke district have undergone a ten-day training on the relevancy of family planning. Eugene Rwabuneza, an official of the Ministry of Health, who presided over the closing ceremony called upon men to lead the family planning campaign. He also called upon pregnant women to embrace voluntary counseling and testing for HIV/AIDS. The seminar was organised by members of National Women Council in the district under the theme ‘Family planning a strong tool for development which calls for participation of both men and women’ According to the participants, the seminar attracted the biggest number of men who committed to adopt the use of the available methods of family planning in order to ensure child spacing. Gakenke is said to be one of the highly populated districts in the country with the least users of family planning methods. During the event, community health advisors together with doctors from Nemba Hospital registered many participants accepting to adopt family planning. Ends
