Until Alice Akumu* shares her story, one might think she is a happily married woman with a dotting husband who has defied the traditional gender roles. But that is far from the reality of Akumu’s life. The conditions surrounding her home in Lalworo village, Paicho Sub County, Aswa County, Gulu district, border on house imprisonment.
Akumu’s situation has nothing to do with crime or anything like that but rather the manner her husband perceives family planning services. At 38, Akumu was due for her 14th delivery. Doreen Aloo, a midwife and the maternity in-charge at Cwero Health Centre III where Akumu was due for labour considered 14 children not only too many children for any mother but for one at 38.
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