Advances in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence(AMLAI)
ISSN: 2769-545X | DOI: 10.33140/AMLAI
Impact Factor: 1.755
Joseph Baruch Baluku
Mildmay Uganda, P.O. Box 24985, Kampala, Uganda
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Research Article
Predictors of Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Services by Urban Refugees in Kampala City, Uganda
Author(s): Mukama Semei Christopher*, Susan Nakubulwa, Esperance Nyirabega, Pallen Mugabe, Joseph Baruch Baluku, Mary Odiit, Harriet Chemusto, Erna Snelgrove-Clarke, Noni MacDonald, Robert Bortolussi, Janice Graham and Barbara Mukasa
Background: The influx of over 1.3 million refugees in Uganda, with 80,000 settling in the capacity city Kampala (16), challenges the ability of urban refugees to access Sexual and Reproductive Health services (SRH) and family planning (FP) amidst the multiple uncertainties of a precarious everyday life. Utilization of SRH services remains low among urban refugees even though these services are essential to those of reproductive age and vulnerable to unwanted pregnancies and its consequences and contracting sexually transmitted infections (STIs) including HIV. Mild may-Uganda conducted a multimethod outreach program to establish the predictors of access to SRH services by urban refugees in Kampala city this paper presents. Methods: A participatory, gender based, community-led, empowerment approach called Gender Action Learning Systems (GALS).. Read More»