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. 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. [Editor’s note: Uganda has a rapidly growing population and people there – like all over the world – need to have services that support health and well-being. We believe it’s important to share the view of youth in particular, who have to deal with the many issues
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By Joshua Mirondo, youth writer for Transition Earth. [Editor’s note: Access to reproductive health services and sex education is a priority for all countries. And it saves lives. Some 214 million women in the developing world have an unmet need for family planning. Meeting this need for family planning services would prevent 76,000 maternal deaths
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By Joshua Mirondo, youth writer for Transition Earth. The novel coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, is altering lives around the world. Below is a closer look at how it is impacting Uganda, and peoples’ access to reproductive health. Uganda registered its first COVID-19 case on March 22nd, when a Ugandan citizen returned with the virus
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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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