Download or read book Young People s Sexual Reproductive Health in Uganda written by Jenkins Tanga and published by Grin Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientific Essay from the year 2016 in the subject Health Science, grade: Merit, London School of Economics (Social Policy), course: Msc Development Studies, language: English, abstract: In the next decades, Uganda is expected to have the highest population growth in the world, as already observed with a population increase of 10,7 million people between the two national censuses of 2012 and 2014. As of January 2016, the population of Uganda was estimated to have increased by 3.58%. Uganda possesses a large rural population, which has a high unmet need for contraception. Indeed, Uganda has high Total Fertility Rates (TFRs), reaching 6,2 in 2011 according to UDHS 2011, which puts pressure on the reproductive health services. Although since 2000 Uganda has been implementing a Sector Wide Approach (SWAp) to health sector coordination and support, its population still needs to resolve urgent Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) issues. This report will look at the SRH of young people who are defined as those between the age of 15-24; this age bracket also covers the crucial adolescent age bracket of 15-19 years. This report begins with an introduction which gives a background on the state of Uganda and the sprouting of its health system. These two factors have a direct and an imminent impact on the state of SRH, its policy, achievements and challenges. This report will further describe the main data sources and its collection. It will then focus on four areas of young people's SRH notably contraception and fertility, maternal health, abortion and HIV/AIDS. Each field consists of trends and patterns, programmes, policies and challenges. Finally, the conclusion will describe the future of SRH in Uganda.
Download or read book Uganda AIDS Indicator Survey 2011 written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in Uganda written by Stella Neema and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Promoting Young People s Sexual Health written by Roger Ingham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Valuable contributions on different aspects of sexual and reproductive health among young people are presented in this book, with a focus on developing country contexts. Key discussions on issues relating to young people and their sexual activities are brought together in one volume, exploring how these issues are affected by the wider contexts in which they live. The interdisciplinary team of contributors examine the practical and ideological barriers that inhibit progress in the development of educational and service level improvement of young people’s sexual health as well as presenting examples of efforts made to overcome such difficulties. Promoting Young People's Sexual Health looks to the future, proposing ways forward in terms of policy and legislative changes necessary for long term improvements in young people’s sexual health.
Download or read book Protecting the Next Generation in Uganda written by Leila Darabi and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Promoting Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in East and Southern Africa written by Knut-Inge Klepp and published by Nordiska Afrikainstitutet. This book was released on 2008 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Africa, as in many parts of the world, adolescent reproductive health is a controversial issue for policy makers and programme planners. Adolescents are particularly vulnerable to HIV and AIDS and to a host of other problems such as sexually transmitted infection, unwanted pregnancy, unsafe abortions, sexual abuse, female genital mutilation and unsafe circumcision. Yet many countries do not have adolescent health policies in place and much remains to be done to ensure that adolescents can access appropriate sexual and reproductive health services. The authors of this volume present new perspectives and strategies to promote adolescent sexual and reproductive health. In particular, they make a unique attempt to bring together social and biomedical science and to disseminate concrete empirical evidence from existing programmes, carefully analysing what works and what does not at the local level.
Download or read book Stories of Change written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in Uganda written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Protecting the Next Generation in Uganda written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As young people grow into adolescence and young adulthood, most will become sexually active and thus be exposed to the dual risks of unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), most importantly HIV. Although Uganda's multipronged HIV prevention program consisting of direct programmatic efforts to promote abstinence, monogamy and condom use, as well as a wide range of other strategies to fight stigma, such as outreach to religious leaders successfully contributed to a drop in HIV prevalence in the 1990s, that decline may have reached a plateau.
Download or read book Social Dynamics of Adolescent Fertility in Sub Saharan Africa written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1993-02-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This examination of changes in adolescent fertility emphasizes the changing social context within which adolescent childbearing takes place.
Download or read book Youth Reproductive and Sexual Health written by Shane Khan and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The study provides information on key reproductive and sexual health indicators in young women and men age 15-24 in 38 developing countries"--P. xiii.
Download or read book Reproductive Health of Young Adults in Uganda written by Sri Poedjastoeti and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Qualitative Evidence of Adolescents Sexual and Reproductive Health written by Stella Neema and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unmet Sexual and Reproductive Health of University Students in Uganda written by Viola Nilah Nyakato and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHO defines the "young people" as those aged between 10 & 24 years. The common image of being young is one of relative freedom from ill-health. However, nearly 10% of the global burden of disease is borne by young people; it is a time of first sexual encounters that predispose to unwanted pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections including HIV/AIDS. To examine the unmet sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs of university students, between June and July 2005,9 FDGs & 6 individual interviews were conducted among students and staff of Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Uganda. Whereas students are sexually active, safe sex services were insufficiently availed at students' services centres. Students' unmet SRH needs could increase risk of HIV/AIDS, unwanted pregnancies and abusive relationships. Female students are more vulnerable because of their involvement in relationships with older boyfriends and community demand for marriage plans after school. Lack of awareness about SRH issues, poor life negotiating skills and lack of confidence in the available services are considered as key unmet SRH needs of student.
Download or read book Sexuality and Reproductive Health During Adolescence in Africa written by Barthélémy Kuate Defo and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Service Seeking Practices and Preference of Young People written by Rebecca Persis Mukaire and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research is about the sexual and reproductive health practices of young women and men in the age group of 18 -24 years in Nambale sub-county in Iganga district, Uganda. In this research I sought to understand the relevancy and responsiveness of current ASRH programs given the high rates of unsafe abortion, unwanted pregnancy, STI and HIV infection and poor maternal health practices observed by the Uganda Demographic and Health Survey -UDHS (2006) and reports by the Uganda National Adolescent Health Policy (2004). Most prior research related to this topic focuses on the adult population perceptions about young people0́9s service seeking practices. This focus undermines the participation of young people in matters that concern them and their preference. This inquiry therefore focused on the perspective of the young population of 18-24 years old, examining their ASRH service seeking practices, preference and media habits in order to explain reasons for low utilization of services from the perspective of young people and possible improvements in light of the client-provider oriented efficiency approach to 0́−unique0́+ public health services like ASRH. Learning their perceptions and attitudes about current service delivery arrangements and what they perceive as the most effective approach to improving accessibility and utilization of ASRH services to improve their health wellbeing. This research answers the question as to why utilization of ASRH is low and how ASRH programs could be packaged to benefit and to increase young people0́9 satisfaction if their priorities or thoughts were to be aligned with standard goals of quality assurance in ASRH. ASRH services as used in this research are those reproductive health services that are being used by young people from 10-24 years. Using the case study approach, I employed the Focus Group Discussion (FGD) techniques using the Participatory Rapid Appraisal methodology (PRA) for data collection and analysis. This approach allowed for shared learning between local community and myself to assess and analyze situations together to arrive at appropriate conclusions. Findings of this research imply that the process which should be used in developing appropriate communication and advocacy strategies should not be limited to NGO managers or district health officials of participating organizations but should engage local service providers, local media, local artists, representatives of parents, teachers, advocates of young people0́9s rights and young people themselves in order to get a well balanced content and process.
Download or read book National Adolescent Health Policy for Uganda written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
