The CEO of the National Youth Authority (NYA), Pius Enam Hadzide, is advocating for both sexes to have equal access to reproductive health education in the country.
He said the increasing rate of teenage pregnancies in Ghana is alarming making it imperative for authorities to intensify education on reproductive health for both males and females.
Per statistics from the District Health Information Management System (DHIMS) of the Ghana Health Service, 109,888 teenage pregnancies were recorded in 2020 alone. Out of the figure, 2,865 pregnancies were from girls aged between 10 and 14 years, below the age of statutory consent.
“The foregoing confirms that if we are keen on realising the industrialisation vision of our country and the attendant improvement in the economic, social and cultural development of the youth, it is imperative to ensure equal access to comprehensive sexual reproductive health education (SRHE) to the youth, especially to those at risk such as out-of-school youth,” Hadzide said at a consultative meeting organised by the NYA on reproductive health education for out-of-school persons.
The meeting provided a platform for stakeholders to develop a single document for adolescents to help curb the increasing numbers of teenage pregnancies in the country.
Priscilla Seyram Abdallah
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