EPISODE · Nov 23, 2023 · 54 MIN
Barriers to Education:Child Marriage and Teenage pregnancy in Uganda 🇺🇬
from CSA FIRESIDE · host CSA FIRESIDE
As of 2016, UNPFA reported that 43% of women 25-49 years had married by 18 years. According to Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) in 2018, almost 25% of Ugandan women had given birth by the age of 18. These figures spiked to 1025 teenage pregnancies per day in 2020 in Uganda due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this episode, we discuss the causes,conséquences, and what needs to done to address these statistics.
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