By Joshua Mirondo. Uganda has one of the most youthful populations in the world, with slightly more than half of its population under age 15. The total population of Uganda in 2024 is 45.9 million people, which represents an increase of 11.3 million persons from the 2014 census. Addressing the reproductive health needs of youth
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By Joshua Mirondo. For the past seven years, the SRHR Alliance Uganda (Sexual Reproductive Health & Rights) convenes an annual event called the Alliance Week. It is a week-long activity geared towards bridging the SRHR knowledge gap and bringing youth-friendly SRH-related services closer to communities across Uganda. A different district is selected each year, where
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By Joshua Mirondo, Transition Earth. The world’s population of youth (ages 15–24) is the largest in history, with more than 1.2 billion falling into this category of young people. Almost a billion of these young people live in developing countries. The number of youth is projected to increase 62 percent in the economically poorest countries
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By Joshua Mirondo, Transition Earth. Young people are diverse and so are their needs, therefore to get their attention, one needs to be considerate. In a community where reproductive health is often called immoral, it takes a lot of work to break these barriers. Many interventions have been made to ensure that young people have
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By Joshua Mirondo, youth writer for Transition Earth. At the age of 19, Martha (not her real name) is living with a mental disability in Uganda’s Odia, Arua district. She is a mother of two children, a 9-year-old and 4-year-old. Martha has no idea of who their fathers are and neither do the people with
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By Joshua Mirondo, youth writer for Transition Earth. Uganda is at risk of having adverse gender, human rights and environment effects because of its high population growth rate. There is an annual increase of 3.3 percent, which is one of the fastest in Africa – and the whole world. Since the majority of Uganda’s population is
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By Suzanne York. This question came up a few times at the International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP), a biennial gathering of reproductive health and rights advocates.  This year’s conference included a small number of attendees who address both reproductive health and conservation/environmental rights through a development approach known as PHE, or population, health and environment. The
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By Suzanne York. At first glance, the recent UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on global warming may not seem to have much to do with the International Day of the Girl, observed on October 11th. But climate change has a lot to do with girls, and especially the rights of girls. For one
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By Joshua Mirondo, guest blogger for Transition Earth. Uganda is a very young country. Young people below the age of 30 constitute over 75% of the nation’s population and eight million are youth aged 15-30. About 25% of these are in institutions of higher learning like universities and vocational technical institutes. Research shows that almost
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By Suzanne York. Given the chance, would you support something that many women say they want? Something that is not costly in the scheme of things? That “something” would be contraceptives and family planning services, and yet it is under threat in the U.S. and around the world (mainly because of the U.S. government). The
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