Busia, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Teenage girls in Busia district are accusing health workers attached to various health facilities of harassment whenever they seek family planning services. According to the teens, the health workers are rude and often block them from accessing family planning methods of their preference. The girls …
Read More »Teenage commercial sex workers worry Buseruka sub county authorities
Hoima, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Buseruka sub county authorities in Hoima district have raised a red flag over the high number of teenage girls involved in commercial sex. According to the authorities, many girls between 15 and 17 years have dropped out of school to engage in commercial sex to earn …
Read More »Over 4,000 Acholi girls made pregnant during lockdown
Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least 33 teenage girls in Acholi are being made pregnant everyday since the lockdown when they stopped going to school. In all so far, a whopping 4,000 girls in the Acholi sub-region have become pregnant in four months of the lockdown an average …
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