Uganda’s teenage pregnancy crisis stagnates at 25%
Kampala, Uganda | URN | Health experts have called for urgent, coordinated national action to address Uganda’s persistent teenage pregnancy crisis, which has remained largely unchanged for more than two decades, with rates fluctuating between 24 and 25 per cent. The experts warn that the continued high prevalence of teenage pregnancy is undermining girls’ education, exposing adolescents to life-threatening reproductive health complications and threatening efforts to improve the country’s social and economic development. Speaking at a Media Café organised by the Health Journalists Network Uganda (HEJNU) in partnership with Palladium and BBC Media Action, Dr Irene Mwenyango, the Assistant Commissioner for Adolescent and School Health at the Ministry of Health, said the stagnating figures de…