{"id":55254,"date":"2022-04-13T10:39:26","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T07:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=55254"},"modified":"2022-04-13T10:39:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T07:39:26","slug":"nabbanja-calls-for-intervention-to-reduce-teenage-pregnancies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/nabbanja-calls-for-intervention-to-reduce-teenage-pregnancies\/","title":{"rendered":"Nabbanja calls for intervention to reduce teenage pregnancies"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Moses Ndhaye<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The rate of teenage pregnancy in Uganda has stagnated at 25% for over a decade, a report released by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has revealed.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0This is far higher than the country\u2019s desired rate and target of at least 15% by 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n

The report, titled, the cost of inaction, the economic and social burden of teenage pregnancy in Uganda indicates that the percentage of women aged between 15-19 years who have given birth or are pregnant declined between 2001 and 2006 from 31% to 25%, it has stagnated at 25% for over the last fifteen years.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is mainly attributed to sexual violence, limited access to integrated sexual and reproductive health services, gender-based violence, and cultural norms that cherish early marriages among others.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Population Secretariat indicates that of the 1.2 million pregnancies recorded in Uganda annually, 25% of these are teenage pregnancies. <\/span><\/p>\n

The report indicates that in 2021 for example, about 31,566 girls got pregnant on a monthly basis, an equivalent of 1,052 daily.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Officiating at the launch of the report Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja called for more intervention to help the country reduce the cases of teenage pregnancy.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Moses Ndhaye The rate of teenage pregnancy in Uganda has stagnated at 25% for over a decade, a report released by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has revealed. \u00a0This is far higher than the country\u2019s desired rate and target of at least 15% by 2020. The report, titled, the cost of inaction, the economic and social burden of teenage pregnancy in Uganda indicates that the percentage of women aged between 15-19 years who have given birth or are pregnant declined between 2001 and 2006 from 31% to 25%, it has stagnated at 25% for over the last fifteen years. This is mainly attributed to sexual violence, limited access to integrated sexual and reproductive health services, gender-based violence, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":45611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":""},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}