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Early Pregnancies Shatter Girls' Futures | Uganda News
Four hundred nineteen girls under fifteen are already navigating antenatal care in Busoga — a chilling sign of a deeper crisis. Over 27,000 adolescent girls aged 15 to 19 gave birth in health facilities, with Namayingo District alone accounting for a quarter of those cases. Officials are sounding the alarm, urging urgent community action to address the social and economic forces pushing young girls into early motherhood — often at the cost of their education. With many of these teens unlikely to return to school, the message is clear: we must tackle root causes head-on to ensure every young…
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