The Member of Parliament (MP) for Kwabre East Constituency in the Ashanti Region, Francisca Oteng Mensah is proposing the distribution of condoms to teenage girls to help prevent unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
According to her, “during my visit to the UK, I observed that some schools were distributing contraceptives and condoms to teenage girls on Fridays to help protect them sexually. It is high time we paid attention to such issues since parents cannot be everywhere with their teenage girls. The use of these contraceptives will also help teenagers not to contract sexual related diseases”
Speaking in a meeting at Our Lady of Grace Senior High School (SHS) at Mamponteng in the Kwabre East District, she urged the Ministry of Education (MoE) to adopt this initiative of distributing condoms every Friday to teenage girls to curb the high rate of teenage pregnancies in Ghana.
She added that there was the need for parents and other stakeholders to come together to deal with the increasing rate of teenage pregnancies in the country.
Fifty-seven thousand teenage pregnancies were recorded nationwide in the first half of 2017.
A total of 31 teenage pregnancy related deaths were also recorded during the period.
Mr Simeon Kwabena Acheampong, the Ashanti Regional Manager of Marie Stopes International, Ghana, an international NGO, providing contraception and safe abortion services said a total of 9,100 adolescents reportedly got pregnant in the Ashanti Region during the first half of this year.
Source: Peacefmonline.com
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You are bunch of 1di0tts. How could you attack the young lady for what she said? This is the problem with Ghana; too many illiterates or educated illiterates. Get some brains because you are the one exhibiting your hollow heads here. S3x education is the way forward and we must know that no amount of moral preaching will keep the youth of any country out of s3x. As a matter of fact S3X is even now added to the basic human needs. The only way forward is proper education. Like someone said below, Ghana is made up of hypocrites and people who lacks what it takes to use their brains.
That is what happens when you elect a tenager into parliament
Now I know we have hollow heads in Parliament.
Sorry MP, please talk proper, you just graduated, right? SHARING in this context? Sharing a bag of rice, would mean having two or more individuals, each take a portion of that bag of rice. What does it mean to share a condom? How would it be used?