THEn Ugandain the Namutumba district, girls as young as 9-10 years old they are forced to living the nightmare of early marriages and pregnancies. Poverty, traditions and human trafficking are the basis of a dramatic reality that translates into a health tragedy: cervical cancer. «I have seen too many girls, too young, become mothers. They are too small, and already fighting for their lives”, says Allan Eric Lubiitesenior medical director and head of the Nsinze Health Centre, founded in this remote corner of Uganda. Girls are victims of a system that reduces them to commodities, bought and sold in exchange for cows.
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