Assessment of the Challenges Facing Adolescent Mothers in Tandale Ward, Kinondoni District, Dar es Salaam.

Saidi, Hadija (2020) Assessment of the Challenges Facing Adolescent Mothers in Tandale Ward, Kinondoni District, Dar es Salaam. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

This study assesses challenges facing adolescent mothers at Tandale Ward in Kinondoni District. Specific objective of this study were to identify challenges facing adolescent mothers at Tandale Ward in Kinondoni District, to explore factors contributing to adolescent motherhood at Tandale Ward in Kinondoni District, to examine the community involvement in addressing challenges facing adolescent mothers at Tandale Ward in Kinondoni District. A sample size of 170 respondents was used. Questionnaires, interviews and secondary sources were used to collect data. Collected data were analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) among adolescent mother, parents and guardian doctors and police. The finding showed that youth are mostly influenced to fall in sexual intercourse with peer pressure, poverty for girls, encourage to sexual activity, and lack of appropriate information is given of how to prevent disease and unwanted pregnancy. Many children experience difficulties traveling to and from school. Some transport operators refuse to take children because they pay lower fares. Community health provider-led interventions focus on both prevention and treatment with the core function to make services relevant and ‘adolescent-friendly’. The government should introduce schools which are friendly to adolescent mothers, meaning that, the schools which will have the baby care service for the babies of adolescent mothers when the mothers are in classes. The government should support income generation activities especially for adolescent mothers, due to economic hardship to some adolescent mothers; otherwise such mothers may engage in sex for money, a situation which will put them in danger of HIV infection as well as getting second or more children. Keywords: Challenges Facing Adolescent Mothers in Tandale Ward, Kinondoni District

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