UGANDA: 23,000 GIRLS IMPREGNATED IN LANGO IN ONE YEAR – NGO

A new report by Communication for Development Foundation Uganda (CDFU), an NGO, shows that 23,549 teenage girls visited health facilities in the Lango Sub-region for antenatal care services in the last eight months. The survey shows that adolescent girls were impregnated between January and August this year. Negative gender norms, poor parenting coupled with greed for dowry is partly to blame for the increasing teenage pregnancies.