What This Teen Mom Wishes She'd Known Before She Got Pregnant
She was ashamed to be seen buying condoms. She didn't dare ask her mother for advice. So how can Uganda bring down its high rate of teen pregnancy?
Not that long ago, Maria Nalubega, 16, suspected she was pregnant.
The teen from Mbuya-Kinawataka, a slum in Uganda, had not been using contraception with her boyfriend of two years. She feared what her neighbors might think if they saw her buying condoms at the local shop. She was terrified to ask for advice from her single mother, who expected to her to abstain from sex until marriage.
And she simply thought she was too young to become pregnant.
In Uganda — where I also grew.
