As the world marks the July11th World Population day in commemoration of the day in which it is believed that the world's population hit the 5 billion persons in 1987, again as the purpose of the day dictates the world shall be reflecting on “the population trends and related issues” with focus this year on Teenage pregnancies.
In Uganda it is not the first time that the plight of innocent girls and boys – yes boys as well are affected by the problem world over – is being given attention. In 2007 the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) ranked Uganda 9th with 54.1% of girls married off before clocking 18 years in their 2006 survey publication entitled “Too Young to Wed: Education and action toward Child Marriage”. In their 2008 survey publication entitled “Before She's Ready: 15 places girls marry before 15” by World Vision Uganda ranked 13th in the world with 15.9% of girls married off before the age of 15.
