Assessment of accessibility to sexual and reproductive health services among adolescents in Uganda.

Abstract

The report examined the factors associated with accessibility to contraceptives usage among adolescents in Uganda. In order to achieve this general objective of the study, the sub objectives which included the impact of demographic and socio-economic factors to accessibility to contraceptive among the adolescents was examined. The study used secondary data which was collected by UBOS in 2016. The obtained data was presented at three levels “Univariate analysis, Bi-variate analysis and Multi-variate analysis”. The study finding for study indicated that adolescents who had ever used contraceptives, education, level of income, religion, marital status, sex at first cohabitation and age at first sex were identified to be significant factors associated with accessibility to contraceptive use. From the logistic analysis, level of income was identified to be the determinant of accessibility to contraceptives among adolescents. Therefore, the report concludes that, accessibility to contraceptives among the adolescents is affected by level of income. The researchers then recommend economic adolescents and young women empowerment that is to say young women’s ability to participate equally in existing markets, their access and control over productive resources, access to decent work, lives and bodies and increased voice so as to increase their income and girl child education since educated women are expected to earn a high income which enable them to access sexual health reproductive services.