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Production and marketing of energy drinks has contributed to teenage pregnancy increase in Uganda.
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In Uganda, many companies are venturing into production and marketing of energy drinks, which they claim treats many diseases and more so boosts men and women sexual stamina. The later is being used as a marketing tool, this has influenced the married and non married youth to engage in consumption of these herbal drinks to enhanced their sexual stamina. Now that there is lots of redundancy as schools have been closed for long due to covid -19 standard operating procedure, many male youth that have already boosted their sexual stamina now has time and access to the young girls who are home. So they get engaged in mere relationship and end up with pregnancies.

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The causes of early pregnancies among youths today are not a result of energy drinks only. There are many causes of this trend. The first example are the moveis seen/watched at homes on various TV stations. These TV stations show films which involes love affairs. You can find out that these days all TV stations show Love stories from morning to evening. These include films from abroad and local movies. This has infuenced many young boys and girls to practice what they watch on TVs hence causing high pregnancy rate.
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