Sexually transmitted infections among young women aged 15-24 years in Uganda
Abstract
This study on Sexually Transmitted Infections among young women aged 15-24years in Uganda
is a growing public health concern globally, with 374million cases acquired every day.
This study however aimed at determining the risk factors for STIs among young women in
Uganda and draws attention to the preventive measures that should be adopted to ensure that
young women access safer sexual and reproductive health services (SRHS), which are some of
the objectives of the study.
The study however used Secondary data and STATA analysis. UGIR Individual record dataset
was used from UDHS,2016 since it was focusing on only females aged 15-24years in Uganda.
Frequencies, Chi squared tests and a logistic regression were used to determine the associations
between STIs and other factors. A sample size of 8048 was used from a total of 15,506 women
who were interviewed during the survey.
Independent Variables were used in STATA analysis which included age, education, place of
residence, religion, wealth status, number of sexual partners excluding spouse and marital status
were used for analysis whereas the independent variable was had an STI.
The study recommends various preventive options for young women against STIs which include
women empowerment, condom use, media campaigns to promote sexual health and many other
interventions. Also recommends that government of Uganda and other stakeholders as well as
people from various communities’ work hand in hand to control a rise in these infections that
affect young women especially.