According to the Uganda Demographic and Health Survey key indicators report of March 2017, 25% of adolescents aged 15 to 19 had begun childbearing at the time of the survey, 19% of women in the same age group had already given birth while 5% were pregnant with their first child.25 In this study, 3.7% (101 out of 2710) of the females that were rubella IgM‐positive were above 15 years of age and as such putting them at the risk of having CRS babies. The gene discussed is CD40LG; the disease is congenital rubella syndrome.