Teachers’ personal experiences of sexual initiation motivating their sexuality education messages in secondary schools in Kampala, Uganda

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Table 1. Participants’ experiences of sexual initiation (shared by 37 participants in total)

Personal experience	Virgin (wants to abstain until marriage)	Abstinence until marriage	Premarital sex with marriage partner only	Has had premarital sex
Male	3	1		14
Female	3	3	3	10

Table 2. Participants’ personal experiences of sexual initiation and the content of their sexuality education messages by gender and age (shared by 37 participants in total)

Personal experience	Gender	Motivated to teach
		Abstinence only	Condom as last resort	Abstinence and contraception
Virgin (wants to abstain until marriage)	male	1		2
	female	1	1	1
Abstained until marriage	male	1
	female	2	1
Premarital sex with marriage partner only	male
	female	1	2
Had premarital sex	male	4	4	6
	female	2	5	3
Age range of interviewed teachers:		23–43	22–53	23–36