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Addressing Adolescent Health challenges in Uganda - WHO

(6 days ago) WEBAccording to the Ministry of Health, presently, 25% of the Ugandan teenagers become pregnant by the age of 19. About 49% are married before their 18th birthday and they start getting babies until their mid 40s. Adolescents face a host of …

https://www.afro.who.int/news/addressing-adolescent-health-challenges-uganda

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THE UGANDA NATIONAL ADOLESCENT HEALTH …

(6 days ago) WEBMinistry of Health is focusing at acceleratingefforts for the implementation of the new Roadmap for Improving Adolescent Healthin Uganda in collaboration with its partners. The ministry seeks to galvanize and unite …

https://www.health.go.ug/cause/the-uganda-national-adolescent-health-landscape-and-recommendations-for-improved-service-delivery-report/

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What are the challenges faced by young people in your country

(3 days ago) WEBThe World Health Program has charactericized mental health as a sickness but in Uganda they is still stigma and misunderstanding about mental illness Uganda has only one …

https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Issues/Youth/E.Odeke-Uganda.pdf

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How a health worker in Uganda is empowering young people to

(2 days ago) WEB“For a long time, the youth in the communities bordering our health centre did not receive adapted youth-friendly health services”, says Maureen Saaba, a health …

https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/how-health-worker-uganda-empowering-young-people-access-health-and-life-saving-services

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AD745: Health, water, and education top problems Ugandan …

(9 days ago) WEBHealth, water supply, and education are the most important problems that youth say their government should address, followed by infrastructure/roads, …

https://www.afrobarometer.org/publication/ad745-health-water-and-education-top-problems-ugandan-youth-want-government-to-address/

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Adolescent development UNICEF Uganda

(3 days ago) WEBAccording to the Ministry of Health, 25 per cent of Ugandan teenagers become pregnant by the age of 19. Close to half are married before their 18th birthday and continue having babies into their mid-40s. …

https://www.unicef.org/uganda/what-we-do/adolescent-development

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Adolescent Health Policy Guidelines and Service Standards

(8 days ago) WEBWho are adolescents/young people in Uganda and what are the issues affecting them Uganda has a large young population; approximately 52.7% of the population is under …

https://platform.who.int/docs/default-source/mca-documents/policy-documents/guideline/UGA-AD-17-01-GUIDELINE-2012-eng-Adolescent-Health-Policy-and-Service-Standards.pdf

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National adolescent health policy for Uganda - UNESCO

(2 days ago) WEBUganda. Ministry of Health. The overall goal of this policy is to mainstream adolescent health concerns in the national development process in order to improve the quality of …

https://healtheducationresources.unesco.org/library/documents/national-adolescent-health-policy-uganda

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Child and adolescent mental health services in Uganda - PMC

(3 days ago) WEBHowever, these issues are rarely addressed in the country’s health systems; even though youth are receiving treatment for HIV, they should also receive support …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8336399/

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Adolescents in Uganda: Sexual and Reproductive Health

(3 days ago) WEBAdolescents in Uganda: Sexual and Reproductive Health. Nearly one-quarter of Uganda’s population is between the ages of 10 and 19. Many of these young people are at risk or …

https://www.guttmacher.org/report/adolescents-uganda-sexual-and-reproductive-health

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MINISTRY OF HEALTH

(8 days ago) WEBPIASCY: Presidential Initiative on AIDS Strategy for Communication to Youth RH: Reproductive Health RIA: Regulatory Impact Assessment RMNCAH: Reproductive, …

https://www.health.go.ug/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/VALIDATED-ADH-LANDSCAPE-REPORT-2.pdf

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adolescents factsheet 017 - UNFPA Uganda

(2 days ago) WEBUganda is home to 14.6 million young people (10-24 years old) out of the country’s total population of 41.6 million (2020 projections1) The sexual debut is 16.9 years for female …

https://uganda.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/pub-pdf/adolescents_factsheet_017.pdf

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Challenges in Access and Utilization of Sexual and Reproductive …

(6 days ago) WEBIntroductionSexual and Reproductive Health access to Information services is still a pressing need for youth in Uganda even during the COVID-19 pandemic, which …

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frph.2021.705609/full

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Understanding sexual and reproductive health needs of …

(8 days ago) WEBAdolescents are frequently reluctant to seek sexual and reproductive health services (SRH). In Uganda, adolescent health and development is constrained by …

https://reproductive-health-journal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12978-015-0026-7

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Mental health care in Uganda - The Lancet Psychiatry

(3 days ago) WEBDuring the opening of mental health month (May, 2022), officials from the Ministry of Health in Uganda stated that about 14 million people of the 43·7 million population have a …

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(22)00305-4/fulltext

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Mental health in Uganda - American Psychological Association (APA)

(Just Now) WEBIn Uganda, mental, neurological and substance use disorders are a major public health burden (Mugisha et al., 2019). Depression, anxiety disorders, and elevated …

https://www.apa.org/international/global-insights/uganda-mental-health

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(PDF) Mental healthcare in Uganda: desperate challenges but real

(2 days ago) WEBUganda spends 9.8% of gross domestic product. on healthcare, or US$146 annually per person. Less tha n 1% of this goes into mental healt hcare, compared with …

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320812855_Mental_healthcare_in_Uganda_desperate_challenges_but_real_opportunities

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Naguru Youth Health Network

(3 days ago) WEBNaguru Youth Health Network is a youth-led not-for-profit organization supporting youth-friendly service provision in Uganda. NYHN’s purpose is to promote increased access …

https://nyhnuganda.org/

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Youth and Adolescents – Reproductive Health Uganda

(4 days ago) WEBTo Increase young people’s knowledge on SRH to enhance their capacity to make healthy sexual choices. Young people comprise of the greater population in Uganda with 78% …

https://www.rhu.or.ug/youth-and-adolescents/

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Ugandan youth still at risk of several problems Monitor

(1 days ago) WEBUganda’s youth are currently the most affected segment of the population in terms of vulnerability to unemployment, economic stagnation and poverty. A major …

https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/oped/letters/ugandan-youth-still-at-risk-of-several-problems-4377052

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Youths call for action on global issues at historic UN summit

(4 days ago) WEBSusan is one of the youth who participated in the United Nations Civil Society Conference on May 9-10. The historic event, the first of its kind in Africa, was held at the …

https://nation.africa/kenya/health/youth-call-for-action-on-global-issues-at-historic-un-summit--4627202

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Are Schools Too Focused on Mental Health? - The New York Times

(8 days ago) WEB671. Lucy Foulkes, a research psychologist at the University of Oxford, wants school systems to proceed cautiously with large-scale mental health interventions. “It’s …

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/06/health/mental-health-schools.html

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Data can help spot youth mental health issues. The problem is …

(1 days ago) WEBData can help spot — and stop — youth mental health issues. The problem lies in gathering it. Throughout the newly built St. Bernard-Elmwood Place High School, …

https://www.wvxu.org/education/2024-05-16/youth-mental-health-data-gathering-ohio

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Half of Wisconsin's youth have depression, anxiety, behavioral issues

(8 days ago) WEBAt the same time, half of Wisconsin's youth say they have difficulty obtaining mental health services and half of children aged 3 to 17 diagnosed with a mental health …

https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/health/2024/01/15/half-of-wisconsins-youth-have-depression-anxiety-behavioral-issues/72204394007/

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Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda experience internet outages …

(6 days ago) WEBInternet users in Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Uganda have been complaining about poor connectivity as service providers across East Africa …

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cprg0yn8q81o

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Pilsen group encourages positive self-talk, coping skills in young

(2 days ago) WEBAccording to the Centers for Disease Control, 3 in 5 teen girls in the United States felt persistently sad or hopeless in 2021 — double that of boys, representing a …

https://chicago.suntimes.com/well/2024/05/19/pilsen-after-school-mental-health-wellness-girls-group-positive-coping-skills

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R.F.K. Jr. Says Doctors Found a Dead Worm in His Brain

(4 days ago) WEBThe presidential candidate has faced previously undisclosed health issues, including a parasite that he said ate part of his brain. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has …

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/us/rfk-jr-brain-health-memory-loss.html

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DEA Releases 2024 National Drug Threat Assessment

(5 days ago) WEBPhone Number: (571) 776-2508. WASHINGTON – Today, DEA Administrator Anne Milgram announced the release of the 2024 National Drug Threat Assessment …

https://www.dea.gov/press-releases/2024/05/09/dea-releases-2024-national-drug-threat-assessment

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