Protecting the Next Generation: Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health: Uganda
A group of nearly 30 Ugandan parliamentarians discussed new evidence from the Protecting the Next Generation project at a meeting outside Kampala in March 2008. Convened by the German Foundation for World Population (DSW), the half-day event focused on the need to mobilize funds for adolescent sexual and reproductive health. Leila Darabi and Jonathan Wittenberg of Guttmacher and Paul Banoba of Panos Eastern Africa presented key findings and policy recommendations from the new monograph, Protecting the Next Generation in Uganda: New Evidence on Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs.
The MPs—a group comprising both ruling and opposition party members, representatives of every region of Uganda, as well as women and young parliamentarians—expressed strong support for the report’s recommendations: to get information to young people earlier by starting sex education as early as primary school and to increase efforts to fund youth-friendly health services. Major obstacles identified by the report included a lack of clinics and health professionals at the district level. The overall tone of the meeting, however, remained optimistic as participants brainstormed ways to mobilize funds from the national budget and key donor agencies to invest in the next generation.
Country-specific resources for Uganda
Protecting the Next Generation in Uganda: New Evidence on Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs [PDF]
Leila Darabi, Akinrinola Bankole, Kalundi Serumaga, Stella Neema, Richard Kibombo, Humera Ahmed and Paul Banoba
Reports
, March 2008
Adults' Perceptions of Adolescents' Sexual and Reproductive Health: Qualitative Evidence from Uganda [PDF]
Richard Kibombo, Stella Neema, Ann M. Moore and F. Humera Ahmed
Reports
, February 2008
Qualitative Evidence of Adolescents' Sexual and Reproductive Health Experiences in Uganda [PDF]
Stella Neema, Ann M. Moore and Richard Kibombo
Reports
, October 2007
Learning from Adolescents to Prevent HIV and Unintended Pregnancy [PDF]
"In Brief"
, September 2007
Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in Uganda: Results from the 2004 National Survey of Adolescents [PDF]
Stella Neema, Fatima Ahmed, Richard Kibombo and Akinrinola Bankole
Reports
, August 2006
Adolescents in Uganda [PDF]
Fact sheets
, July 2006
Adolescents in Uganda: Sexual and Reproductive Health [PDF]
"In Brief"
, March 2005
Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in Uganda: A Synthesis of Research Evidence [PDF]
Stella Neema, Nakanyike Musisi and Richard Kibombo
Reports
, December 2004
Adolescents' views of and preferences for sexual and reproductive health services in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Malawi and Uganda [PDF]
Ann E. Biddlecom, Alister Munthali, Susheela Singh and Vanessa Woog
African Journal of Reproductive Health, Volume 11, Issue 3, December 2007
Perceptions of risk to HIV Infection among Adolescents in Uganda: Are they Related to Sexual Behaviour? [PDF]
Richard Kibombo, Stella Neema and Fatima H. Ahmed
African Journal of Reproductive Health, Volume 11, Issue 3, December 2007
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