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Prevalence And Factors Associated With Teenage Pregnancy In Sierra Leone: Evidence From A Nationally Representative Demographic And Health Survey Of 2019, Lilian Nuwabaine, Quraish Sserwanja, Kassim Kamara, Milton W. Musaba

School of Nursing & Midwifery, East Africa

Background: Globally, teenage pregnancy remains a public health concern because of the associated maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality. To address the extensive social, political and economic effects of teenage pregnancy, there is a need for current epidemiological evidence on its prevalence and associated factors, especially from low-resource settings where the burden is highest.

Methods: We used data from the 2019 Sierra Leone Demographic and Health Survey (SLDH), which included 3,427 female adolescents. Multistage stratified sampling was used to select study participants. Teenage pregnancy was defined as those who had ever either had a child, or terminated a pregnancy, …

Impact : Issue 13, Patients Behbud

IMPACT – The Aga Khan University Hospital Archives

Content:

- I am a hero!

- The hero

- Enjoy the colors of life: a party for children with cancer

- Events

- Our Members

Impact : Issue 12, Patients Behbud

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Content:

- From the Leadership

- Hear his Plea

- Hepatitis B and C : The Silent Killer

- With Gratitude to our Partners and Supporters

Impact : Issue 11, Patients Behbud

IMPACT – The Aga Khan University Hospital Archives

Content:

- A Big Heart : In Discussion with Ebrahim Sidat

- Healing Her Wounds : I Lost Five Children Because of My Heart Problem

- Love Your Heart

- In the Lime Light : Event of the Quarter

Impact : Issue 10, Patients Behbud

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Content

- Chairman's Message

- Look at the Difference We Made in 2016

- Straight From the Press : The Year in Images

- The Change of Kindness

Impact : Issue 9, Patients Behbud

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Content

- The Killer Disease

- Courage from the Heart

- Diagnosis, Early Detection and Treatment of Breast Cancer at AKUH

- "Whenever I Came Here, They Supported Me and..." - Mrs. Tazeen Mehkari

Impact : Issue 8, Patients Behbud

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Content

- Chairman's Message

- Beneficiaries and Disbursements

- A Stone's Throw

- A Greater Vision - Ophthalmology of ear, nose and throat (ENT) Service Line

- “Come See The Hospital and Judge for Yourself" - Mr. Khurram Ashfaq

Impact : Issue 7, Patients' Behbud Society

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Content

- PBS Celebrates 15 Years of Health and hope!

- Mind Over Matter

- Curing Complex Conditions - The Mind and Brain Service Line at AKUH

- “Its a Collective Reponsibility" - Mr. Riaz Siddiqui

Impact : Issue 6, Patients' Behbud Society

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Content

- Chairman's Message

- Light Upon Light

- Mending Hearts

- APPNA: “It is all about service and giving back.”

- “The Aga Khan University is a blessing in this country" - S.M. Pervez

Impact : Issue 5, Patients' Behbud Society

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- Chairman's Message

- During 2014 Your Donations Helped Countless Patients

- You Never Walk Alone

- Hepatitis : The Silent Killer

- First Successful Surgery To Separate Conjoined Twins

- With Gratitude To Our Benefactors and Partners

Impact : Issue 4, Patients' Behbud Society

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Content

- Chairman’s Message

- Distribution of Patients Assisted by PBS

- Where There is Life There is Hope : Shaukat Qasim Agaria

- Happenings

- Dean, Medical College Comes on Board

- Department of Oncology

- Advancement, innovation and quality : Interview with Mr Moin Fudda

Impact : Issue 3, Patients' Behbud Society

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Content

- Chairman’s Message

- What Makes The Patients’ Behbud Society For AKUH Unique?

- Hoping Against Hope : Zain Khanzada

- Happenings

- The Next Generation Comes on Board

- Department of Paediatrics and Child Health : In The Limelight

- A Father’s Love : Mohammad Anas Sajjad

Impact : Issue 2, Patients' Behbud Society

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Content

- Update From The Chairman’s Desk

- The Difference We Made in 2012

- Assisting in a Miracle

- By Helping Another, Our Own Burden Is Lightened : Mrs Talat Dehlavi

- All I Want is to Go Back to School

- We Give Zakat Purely to Please Allah : S.M. Muneer

Impact : Issue 1, Patients' Behbud Society

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Content

- Message from the Chairman

- A fateful encounter that saved my life...

- Our commitment

- Our progress

- Our patients an programmes

Aids, Orphans, And Development In Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review Of The Dilemma Of Public Health And Development, Joe Lugalla

Institute for Educational Development, East Africa

HIV/AIDS is having devastating consequences on families, young children, and other vulnerable social groups. In this paper, I review the impact of HIV/AIDS on families and development in sub-Saharan Africa. I begin by showing the magnitude of the problem and the factors that have led to rapid spread of HIV/AIDS in this sub-continent. I discuss gender inequality, poverty, social inequality, and globalization, and show how these facilitate the rapid spread of the epidemic. I show how AIDS is creating a mass of orphans on the one hand, and how it is impacting development and creating new public health contradictions on …

The State, Law And Urban Poverty In Tanzania, Joe Lugalla

Institute for Educational Development, East Africa

This paper is about the state, law and urban poverty in Tanzania. The paper examines how the state in Tanzania has been trying to solve the problem of urban poverty. The main argument is that the state's conception of urban poverty is not realistic. The urban poor are seen as responsible for their poverty. This is confirmed by the kind of coercive policies, legislation and other measures which have been instituted by the state in order to solve the problem. The paper argues that due to lack of a critical analysis of the causes of poverty, the state has been …