Almost 28% of maternal deaths in Uganda are attributed to young girls aged 15–24 years and 60% of premature deaths among adults are associated with behaviors or conditions that began or occurred during adolescence. Overall, teenage birth rate in Uganda is alarming, 24% of girls give birth to their first child before turning 19 years. Girls struggle to access health services and information that would protect them from unwanted pregnancies, unsafe abortions, school dropout, substance abuse, peer pressure, STIs, HIV and consequently death. Against that background, under our on-going MIRA project VHTs & midwives are using enabled mobile phone devices to pass on lifesaving information and services to adolescent girls including but not limited to sexuality education, menstrual health & hygiene which is bringing about expanded access to essential health services resulting into better health, schooling and protection outcomes for adolescents

Our interventions work to increase knowledge of young people on sexual and reproductive health as well as build their skills to make informed SRHR choices with particular focus on girls’ education, sexual and reproductive health and rights and gender equity for adolescent in and out of school and consequently address risky sexual behaviors, teenage pregnancies & unwanted pregnancies, child marriages, unsafe abortions and school drop outs as well as support community efforts to advocate for and implement high-impact HIV prevention, treatment, and care for adolescents emphasizing abstinence, condom use, HIV testing and counseling and voluntary male circumcision.