Vital statistics has received considerably low priority in the
policy agenda of sub-Saharan Africa, in general and Uganda in
specific, despite the urgent need for reliable information to
measure progress towards the Millennium Development Goals. Policy
decisions and effective planning of resources entirely depend on
reliable information; unfortunately this may be inadequate in most
poor countries. This paper therefore asks; should we bother about
counting the dead and what they have died from and do we need to
know about those being born For any country to efficiently and
effectively plan for the health of its population, it's fundamental
that quality data on births, deaths and cause of death is
collected, to provide guidance for policy and planning of limited
health resources. Significant amounts of development aid have been
invested in Uganda, to improve the health system and certainly the
health status of the population, and the financers of these
initiatives require accountability, both in terms of money spent
and progress attained, but all these may not be possible, unless
the country commits significant amount of resources to strengthen
routine systems of data collection.
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