Caithen Natuhwera2024-10-142024-10-142024-08-30https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12311/1833One of the most serious not only health but social growing concern is the contemporary issue of teenage pregnancies in Uganda communities. The major aim of this dissertation is to ascertain the factors that are influencing early teenage pregnancies, their effects and the possible recommendations that can be implemented to address the chronicle disease among the teenagers. There are numerous factors in this study, many of which include poverty, minimal supervision by parents, peer pressure, early marriage initiations for cultural concerns and many more. Its effects to the teenagers like sexual violence, sexually transmitted diseases and many more. This study includes policies that encourage adolescent reproductive health which tend to provide measures on how to curb teenage pregnancies in Mukono, Uganda.enThesis