The proportions of girls marrying or having children before the age of 18 have been declining in Uganda according to data from the latest publicly available Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) implemented in 2011. Yet despite progress, more than one third of girls still marry as children, and close to three in ten girls have their first child before turning 18. Similarly, despite substantial efforts to improve educational attainment, only one in four...
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2017/12/01
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The cost of not investing in girls : child marriage, early childbearing, low educational attainment for girls, and their impacts in Uganda
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early childbearing