TABITHA Ntono, a resident of Namwendwa village in Kamuli district, dropped out of school in P7. The 19-year-old mother of three is one of the many teenage mothers in Uganda.
Underage pregnancy, lack of access to antenatal care, ill-equipped health facilities, malnutrition and poverty are some of the major factors responsible for ill-health and high maternal and child deaths in the country.
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