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2022 GDHS on teen pregnancy: 26% of young ladies in Savannah District got pregnant in 2022

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The Ghana Factual Assistance's 2022 Segment and Wellbeing Review (GDHS) uncovered that 26% of adolescent young ladies matured 15-19 in the Savannah Region got pregnant in 2022, contrasted with 6% in the More prominent Accra area.

One hundred and 9,000 teen pregnancies were kept in 2020 with the Ashanti Region beating the outline. This implies 301 young ladies get pregnant day to day in the country, with 13 teen pregnancies happening consistently.  

In 2022, the Savannah Region recorded 26% of teenage pregnancy cases in the country. While the Ashanti and Northeast Regions both recorded 24% of cases.

Not only are these numbers worrying, but also a critical concern that has life-time implications on their health, wealth and overall well-being.

Northern Region Analyst, George Agbenyo expressed ''Admittance to regenerative wellbeing schooling and privileges is likewise an issue that is an exceptionally fragile point that many guardians dread to handle. And afterward, obviously, the strict issue could likewise be another element''.

Blessilla Na-Afoe Kandoh is the Wellbeing Interest Lead, NORSAAC, a CSO upholding for the battle against young pregnancy and other medical problems in the Savannah locale.

''There is some degree of responsibility, yet it isn't sufficient. It isn't sufficient and we can see the real factors on the ground where consistently, one information is being taken either from these information reviews or from when young people are composing their BECE or WASSCE assessment. 

We actually have understudies who can't compose because of teen pregnancy or those that accompany pregnancies or even accompany their infants. Government has done well by organizing the reemergence strategies yet that isn't sufficient.

We want to focus on admittance to regenerative wellbeing administrations and instruction in light of the fact that by the day's end the main way we can forestall adolescent pregnancy is when youngsters are having safeguarded sex''.

The 2022 Ghana Segment and Wellbeing Review report will be decisively dispersed through a five-week occasion to local partners. 


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