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Osun State Social and Behavior Change Communication Technical Working Group (OSSBCC TWG) has urged the residents of Osun State to intensify promotion of awareness, publicity, counselling and sex education on Family Planning to combat incidences of unwanted teenage pregnancies prevalent amount adolescent girls, age ranging between 10 and 17.
This is to prevent unsafe abortions, sexually transmitted infections, maternal and morbidity rate in our underaged girls.
The experts who spoke in Osogbo at a Quarterly Meeting, on Wednesday August 23, 2023 for members of the team on Family Planning (FP), Adolescent and Youth Reproductive Health (AYSRH) organised by The Challenge Initiative (TCI) in collaboration with the Osun State Ministry of Health, noted that the creation of awareness on the sensitive issue is important to help people adopt healthy behaviours and to overcome social and structural barriers and improve their lives and those of their families.
Addressing participants, the FP Coordinator, Mrs Abatan Margaret Ololade, stated that the objectives of the meeting include enlightening the public on Family Planning/Adolescent Youth Sexual Reproductive Health (FP/AYSRH) situation, spreading of FP in every households across the state.
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In her lecture, She said adolescent and youth sexual reproductive health should be the concern of everybody because of its gravity on human health and existence.
According to findings conducted SOJ WORLDWIDE ONLINE NEWS, causes of adolescent pregnancy includes,
“Poor parenting, poverty, peer influence, concealing sex education and sex knowledge are the major causes of teenage pregnancy. Lack of parental care, low education and inadequate family support constitute a barrier to good living conditions.”
Further findings according to the National Population Commission (NPC) revealed that 23 percent of girls aged 15 to 19 years have started childbearing.
About 400,000 unplanned births occur annually in Nigeria and half of these births are to teenage girls between the ages of 15 and 19 years.
Some of the root causes identified are poverty, peer pressure and media influence while the effects include: school drop-out, inadequate care for the child born by teenage mother, health problems and a host of other vices.”
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