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Teenage pregnancies rife in Kampala slums
Lack of life skills and sexual reproductive health and rights information makes many adolescent girls susceptible to risky sexual practices.
Lizik (carrying her baby), with her siblings and other children at her rented house in Katanga. (Credit: Violet Nabatanzi)
By: NewVision Reporter,
Journalist
@NewVision
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KAMPALA -
Lizik’s (second name withheld) life took a turn for the worst when she lost both parents during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021.
She was 15
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