Finding means of survival where there is little or no help from the family of these young People(mothers and teens)has led to prostitution to sustain their families. Most of the teenage mothers we interacted with have between 2-3 children from different men, many of them get little or no assistance from the fathers of their children, so the burden is mainly left to the mothers to fend for the family, many are abused by these very men, due to low self-esteem very few fight back against domestic violence.
Families or society tends to shun a girl who gets pregnant outside wedlock, worse while in school. Most of these rejected mothers have no source of income or livelihood and so resort to all sorts of anti-social behavior which has led to an increase in the spread of HIV/AIDS
HIV prevalence is almost four times higher among young women aged 15 to 24 than young men of the same age.
The issues faced by this demographic include gender-based violence (including sexual abuse) and a lack of access to education, health services, social protection and information about how they cope with these inequities and injustices. Indeed, young Ugandan women who have experienced intimate partner violence are 50% more likely to have acquired HIV than women who had not experienced violence.
The lack of sexual education is telling. In 2014, only 38.5% of young women and men aged 15-24 could correctly identify ways of preventing the sexual transmission of HIV and rejected major misconceptions about HIV transmission.
A 2015 evidence review found between 33% and 55% of sex workers in Uganda reported inconsistent condom use in the past month, driven by the fact that clients will often pay more for sex without a condom
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