Teenage pregnancy reported high among catholics

The straight talk foundation says that teenage pregnancy is high among the Catholics compared to Muslims and Pentecostals religions.
This was disclosed by the Foundations Development manager Godfrey Walakira while addressing journalists at Golf course Hotel in kampala .
Walakira said that teenage pregnancy in Catholics is caused because the teenage girls are not much exposed to contraceptives.
He said that religions have not done enough in helping teenage girls from getting pregnant

He also reveled that teenage pregnancies country wide have reduced from 31% to 25% according to the health demographic survey 2012, experts still warn that the vice still poses a huge burden to the nation which needs to be aggressively addressed to totally scale them down completely.
Walakira said that 25% of teenage pregnancy is fueled by low coverage of family planning service that are youth friendly making it difficult for the youth to get knowledge and facilities to prevent the pregnancies.

He said that that teenage pregnancies are high among rural girls compared to urban girls with the reason being that rural girls have less information about reproductive health information which exposes them to danger.

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