{
  "id": 6148159,
  "title": "Uganda: Regional Experts Call for Rethinking Age of Consent As Uganda Struggles With Teenage Pregnancies",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/07/uganda-regional-experts-call-for-rethinking-age-of-consent-as-uganda",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-07T15:40:08.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "AllAfrica Health",
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    "url": "https://allafrica.com/stories/202609070576.html"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "[Independent (Kampala)] Kampala -- Regional sexual and reproductive health experts have called for a closer examination of age-of-consent laws and how they affect adolescents' access to healthcare, arguing that legal and administrative barriers can prevent young people from obtaining the information and services they need to avoid unintended pregnancies.",
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        "title": "Uganda: Regional Experts Call for Rethinking Age of Consent As Uganda Struggles With Teenage Pregnancies",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/07/uganda-regional-experts-call-for-rethinking-age-of-consent-as-uganda-6150492",
        "published": "2026-09-07T15:40:08.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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