Health advocates in the country are now tasking government to prioritize setting up special center that extend specialized health care to the youth in the country at all times. According to the training and development manager, Straight talk foundation, Walakira Godfrey, lack of a special care center for youth in the country’s health facilities creates more room for the youth to carry diseases as well as other health burdens which are in a long run transmitted to their partners which end up causing death.

Walakira adds that only 15% of the country’s health centers (iii) and (iv) extend specialized health care to youth yet it is mandatory for all health centers (iii) and (iv) across the country to have youth friendly services. Though this is a problem to the youth, the programme officer  in charge of reproductive health at the life ministry, Wilberforce Mugwanya attributes the low numbers of health centers extending youth friendly health services to insufficient funding towards the sector coupled with skilled workers though she reveals plans to have almost all these facilitated with the youth friendly health services.

 These facilities would be attending to youth living with STIs and STDs, commercial sex workers, youth with disabilities among others.

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