With Francistown's adolescent pregnancy rate as of now at a stunning 9.2 for each penny, the city's District Health Management Team give off an impression of being a million miles far from accomplishing their objective of a 6.2 for each penny pregnancy rate for 15-19 year-old young ladies by March one year from now.
Out of the 703 ladies who enlisted for antenatal care in the second city between July to September, 64 were adolescent young ladies.
Highlighting his disappointment at the startling numbers, and in addition taking note of that the figure incorporates a few young ladies who are under the legitimate time of assent, Francistown Deputy District Commissioner, Boyce Mangole, said, "Teenager pregnancy is still a worry in this city. It is even troubling that a portion of the young ladies falling pregnant are beneath 16 years old.
"The time frame under survey we recorded one young lady underneath 15 years being pregnant. This is a worry to us as pioneers. These days we find more seasoned men taking part in sexual associations with youthful school young ladies."
Of the 14 facilities in Francistown, Lapologang in Somerset West, and Masego center in the Blocks territory recorded the most elevated number of young pregnancies, recording eight and ten separately.
Resounding Mangole's worries that more established men are progressively in charge of impregnating high school young ladies, a social laborer, who requested that not be named, told the Voice, "A portion of the general population in charge of getting these beneath age young ladies pregnant are elderly men. Guardians regularly don't report such cases to the police since they have been guaranteed a huge number of pula consequently."
The social specialist went ahead to state, "This year alone we have such a large number of episodes of young ladies underneath the period of assent being impregnated. It's tragic truly. Regardless of the cash which guardians are guaranteed, these young ladies' lives will never be the same again."
On another stressing note, it was uncovered that between the months of July and September, 1, 344 females matured from 15 to 29, were dealt with for sexually transmitted contaminations.
This is more than twofold the figure for guys in a similar statistic, with 544 getting treatment for STI's in that period.
Francistown's yearly sexually transmitted contamination rate as of now stands at 13.5 for every penny – a figure the city's wellbeing group plan to diminish to 10 for each penny by March 2018.
It would show up they have a difficult, but not impossible task ahead.
Out of the 703 ladies who enlisted for antenatal care in the second city between July to September, 64 were adolescent young ladies.
Highlighting his disappointment at the startling numbers, and in addition taking note of that the figure incorporates a few young ladies who are under the legitimate time of assent, Francistown Deputy District Commissioner, Boyce Mangole, said, "Teenager pregnancy is still a worry in this city. It is even troubling that a portion of the young ladies falling pregnant are beneath 16 years old.
"The time frame under survey we recorded one young lady underneath 15 years being pregnant. This is a worry to us as pioneers. These days we find more seasoned men taking part in sexual associations with youthful school young ladies."
Of the 14 facilities in Francistown, Lapologang in Somerset West, and Masego center in the Blocks territory recorded the most elevated number of young pregnancies, recording eight and ten separately.
Resounding Mangole's worries that more established men are progressively in charge of impregnating high school young ladies, a social laborer, who requested that not be named, told the Voice, "A portion of the general population in charge of getting these beneath age young ladies pregnant are elderly men. Guardians regularly don't report such cases to the police since they have been guaranteed a huge number of pula consequently."
The social specialist went ahead to state, "This year alone we have such a large number of episodes of young ladies underneath the period of assent being impregnated. It's tragic truly. Regardless of the cash which guardians are guaranteed, these young ladies' lives will never be the same again."
On another stressing note, it was uncovered that between the months of July and September, 1, 344 females matured from 15 to 29, were dealt with for sexually transmitted contaminations.
This is more than twofold the figure for guys in a similar statistic, with 544 getting treatment for STI's in that period.
Francistown's yearly sexually transmitted contamination rate as of now stands at 13.5 for every penny – a figure the city's wellbeing group plan to diminish to 10 for each penny by March 2018.
It would show up they have a difficult, but not impossible task ahead.
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