US-linked ‘crisis centres’ have been condemned by Uganda’s top reproductive health official for opposing contraception and telling pregnant women and teenagers that they should abstain from having sex instead.
Jesca Nsungwa Sabiiti, Uganda’s reproductive health commissioner, said these centres are not regulated by the ministry of health and are undermining government policy, which encourages contraceptive use.
She also expressed concern over centres that provide services for survivors of sexual and domestic abuse without oversight from public institutions. Staff at one centre an undercover reporter visited in Kampala told a teenager she had “consented in a way” to incestuous rape.
