Hamza Businge

Team Leader @Rayofchoiceafrica @roca256| Reproductive Health and Rights Adocate| Lawyer & Procurement Specialist #BCC advocate

[Center for Reproductive Rights @ReproRights]

#BREAKING: 🇨🇴 Colombia’s Constitutional Court has DECRIMINALIZED abortion up to 24 weeks of gestation! Colombia joins the green tide 💚

[Inter-Aid For Sub-Saharan Africa Dev’t & Research @IASADRI]

It is imperative that each
individual, regardless of gender or sexuality, assumes
the responsibility for one’s own SRH maintenance and
has access to those necessary services, including but not
limited to STI prevention and family planning.

[Inter-Aid For Sub-Saharan Africa Dev’t & Research @IASADRI]

Just as women begin a lifelong journey of ongoing SRH
maintenance and care post-pubescence in order to manage
their reproductive and sexual health, so too should men
embark on a similar trajectory.
#MenAndBoysInvolvement
#UnlockMySRHR
#MenEngage
#VoiceYourChoice
#WeAreROCA

[Inter-Aid For Sub-Saharan Africa Dev’t & Research @IASADRI]

To end violence among youth, we need to promote family environments that support healthy development. This can be done through continous parenting skill and family relationship programs.
#16days
#Orangetheworld
#TakeActionNow

[Inter-Aid For Sub-Saharan Africa Dev’t & Research @IASADRI]

Young adolescent girls tend to be less prepared for MHM and suffer from anxiety, apprehensions, fear and shame during their menses. In addition, pre-existing social taboos and cultural restraints mean that managing menstruation is a greater challenge during pandemics.
#MHM

[Inter-Aid For Sub-Saharan Africa Dev’t & Research @IASADRI]

Continued closure of schools has put young girls at a high risk of becoming mothers against their will.
Daily Monitor recently published an article show over 1300 girls have gotten pregnant in Rukungiri district in a period of 7months.
Source @DailyMonitor
https://t.co/JMEG82iGX9

[Inter-Aid For Sub-Saharan Africa Dev’t & Research @IASADRI]

In Ugandan culture, it is common for women to be blamed for unwanted pregnancies or infertility, which leads to suffering, abuse, ostracism, and being subject to human rights violations.

[Hamza Businge @businge256]

We need urgent action to prevent the continued brutalization of girls and women through #FGM.
We call on our government to find strategies to enforce laws that ban female Genital Mutilation.
#EndFGM

[SRHR - €ducation 🇰🇪 🇺🇦 @KasiitaMark]

How am I going to explain to my kids..."that in the 2021 instead of my fellow men supporting their daughters meet their dreams... they defiled them instead." 😭😭😭🙈🙈🙈🙈

[Inter-Aid For Sub-Saharan Africa Dev’t & Research @IASADRI]

The long lockdown has caused a toxic environment in families, increasing incidences of GBV against young girls in many families.

Young people deserve protection from violence and access to justice even more readily under crisis.
#GenerationEquality

[Inter-Aid For Sub-Saharan Africa Dev’t & Research @IASADRI]

The Trafficking in Persons Report,2020 estimates that currently btn 7,000-12,000 young girls are trafficked for sexual exploitation. This week, let us ponder on the plight of our girls who fall victim to this vice and ACT instantly.
#EndHumanTrafficking
#UHRC

[Inter-Aid For Sub-Saharan Africa Dev’t & Research @IASADRI]

Mental health among young people in UG has not been given due focus, yet it has had diverse effects on their lives, more so during #COVID19 pandemic.
It is time for #GOU & all stakeholders, to bring mental health services closer to young people.
#MentalHealthMatters
#Integrate

[SRHR Alliance Uganda @SRHRAllianceUg]

What are some of the alternative ways in which we can reach young people with SRHR information as they are out of school?

#UnlockMySRHR

[Inter-Aid For Sub-Saharan Africa Dev’t & Research @IASADRI]

The teenage pregnancy rate of 25% in UG is worrying as young mothers risk poor maternal health, unsafe abortions, failure to continue with school, and GBV tendencies.
Collective action from family, community and #GOU can ultimately empower girls to fight this vice.
#UmlockmySRHR

[Inter-Aid For Sub-Saharan Africa Dev’t & Research @IASADRI]

Over 3.3m young people are exposed to #GBV @year. GOU priority to tackling #COVID19 has ltd response to GBV. Survivors are left exposed to more danger. There's increased sch dropout & forced/child marriages.
Collective voices can influence great change.
#GenerationEquality

[Inter-Aid For Sub-Saharan Africa Dev’t & Research @IASADRI]

Approx. half of pregnancies in young people aged 15-19 in UG are unintended, estimated 214000 @year. 88% occur in adolescents with unmet need for modern contraception.
Comprehensive approach to access SRH services for adolescents would yield immense SRHR benefits.
#UnlockmySRHR

[Hamza Businge @businge256]

Period poverty is lack of access 2 sanitary products due 2 financial constraints, caused by wide range of life events that negatively impact a girl or woman's ability to access sanitary products to manage a most imminent & regular occurrence in her life.”
#FreeSanitaryPadsForAll.

[Inter-Aid For Sub-Saharan Africa Dev’t & Research @IASADRI]

Redirection of funding to #Covid19 response has led to a lapse in SRH care. GBV, unintended pregnancies, maternal deaths and additional health concerns are on the rise.
There is need for #GOU to give due focus to SRH demands inorder to attain gender equality.
#GenerationEquality

[Inter-Aid For Sub-Saharan Africa Dev’t & Research @IASADRI]

#COVID19 has an unequal compounding impact on the already most marginalized groups; wide spread losses in access to life saving SRH i.e Family planning info & services & increased concerns of GBV, Child marriages, Teenage pregnancies undermining efforts to Gender Equality.

[Inter-Aid For Sub-Saharan Africa Dev’t & Research @IASADRI]

Let's normalize period talk for both men and women. It's a natural experience.
#menstruation