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Uganda: Teen Pregnancies' Plan Under Fire
UNIRIN, 24 July 2014
A new Ugandan sex-education campaign to reduce teen pregnancy, maternal mortality among young women and girls, and the cost of post-abortion medical care, is generating heated… Read more »
Uganda Teen Pregnancy Plan Under Fire
The ethics and integrity ministry and religious leaders have opposed a new sex-education campaign to reduce teen pregnancy, maternal mortality and the cost of post-abortion medical care in the country.
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Africa: Young People Speak Out Against Stigma of Youth Condom Use
Key Correspondents, 25 July 2014
Young people around the world are not receiving clear messages or support to use condoms to prevent HIV infection, according to delegates at the AIDS 2014 conference in Melbourne,… Read more »
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Uganda: Medics Warn Uganda On Maternal and Infant Death Rates
EA Business, 21 June 2014
Maternal and new-born death in the country is expected to increase if Uganda does not address the challenges in the health sector which are compromising the public to Access… Read more »
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Uganda: The Taboo of Talking About Sex Fuels High Rate of Teen Pregnancy
Key Correspondents, 12 May 2014
At the age of 12, Maureen*, who lives in western Uganda was made pregnant by a 27-year-old boda boda (taxi motorcyclist) and is now mother to a one-month-old baby. Read more »
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Uganda: Teen Pregnancy Results From Lack of Choice, Control
Observer, 8 May 2014
Henna is now hawking fruits in the streets of Kampala. She was expelled from school, threatened by her parents and denied by the boda boda cyclist that impregnated her. At the age… Read more »
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The government has resolved to provide contraceptives to girls as young as 12 in order to reduce pregnancy-related complications and death. Read more »
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About 432 out of every 100,000 mothers in Uganda die because of complications related to pregnancy. In a bid to fight this vice in developing countries, October 17 was set aside as ... Read more »
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The number of premature babies in the country has continued to grow. Of the 1.5 million born yearly, 210,000 are born before 37 weeks of pregnancy, according to Dr. Gelasius ... Read more »
