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Facts On Sexual And Reproductive Health And Rights Issues Among Adolescent Girls And Young Women In Uganda

Several factors expose adolescent girls and young women to sexual activity which in turn expose them to the risks inherent to sexual activity such as teenage and unintended pregnancies, complications resulting from pregnancy and HIV infections.
These factors include the age of first sexual encounter, the risk of sexual abuse and violence and the age of marriage. Download the fact sheet with relevant statistics below;

CEHURD Strategic Plan 2020-2024

We are a non-profit, research and advocacy organization which is pioneering the justiciability of the right to health. Founded in 2010, Center for Health, Human Rights and Development (CEHURD) has moved from the margins to the centre stage of advancing social justice and health rights in health systems in Uganda, East African Region, Pan-African and Globally.

We contribute to deconstructing health and human rights and use the law, policy engagements, evidence-based advocacy and mobilizing communities as the major entry points that informs our interventions at national level and in 12 Districts of Uganda at the moment with plans of scaling up to other districts. We have ground-breaking strategic litigation cases that have informed jurisprudence and defined greater rights for our target constituencies while also being actively engaged in East Africa, Pan Africa and International human rights mechanisms, processes and movements.

Motion for a Resolution of Parliament to Stop Teenage Pregnancies in Uganda

The motion for a resolution of parliament urging the government of Uganda to establish and implement policies and strengthen existing laws to stop teenage pregnaciens in Uganda was moved by Dr. Bukenya Micheal Iga the Member of Parliament representing Bukuya County and Chairperson Committee on Health together with Hon. Spellanza Baguma (District Woman Representative Kyenjojo) and Hon. Robinah Sentongo (District Woman Representative Kyotera).

Uganda’s population has drastically grown from 34.6 million in 2014, to an estimated 40 million thus an annual growth rote of 3% which reflects a high fertility rate of 5.4 and one of the contributing factors is teenage pregnancy which according to the Ministry of Health statistics increased from 24% in 2011 to 25% in 201 6 among women aged 15-19 years.

More than 600,000 teenagers become pregnant annually with 3 in 10 teenagers becoming pregnant before they reach 20 years of age, 10%-40% of young girls having unintended pregnancy and over 300,000 babies born in Uganda to adolescent aged 15-19 years.

Teenagers in rural areas are more likely to have started childbearing (27% of women aged 15-19 years) than those in urban areas (19%): for instance 45% of uneducated girls have a child before their 18th birthday, compared to 16% of girls who have attained secondary education.

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