Uganda: Child Brides Get Their Lives Back With Family Planning

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Nalongo Ruth Naluggya Kamulegeya, 35, is among hundreds of economically-empowered women in Luweero district, thanks to family planning.

Naluggya failed to use the pill as a contraceptive and, lucky for her, her husband agreed to have a vasectomy. Vasectomy is a permanent method of birth control for men, where a man's reproductive tubes are severed in a minor operation.

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