Uganda: Fight Over Providing Birth Pills to Teens Continues

2 November 2017

The war of words between government officials over disagreements on whether teenagers should be given contraceptives is not about to come to an end.

On Tuesday this week, while at the National Conference on Unsafe Abortions at Hotel Africana, Prof Anthony Mbonye, the director general of health services at the ministry of health; told stakeholders that he was ready to be sacked but he insists that contraceptives must be provided to teenagers as one of the measures to tame unwanted pregnancies.

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