Statistics from the Tema Health Directorate disclose that the densely populated area has a high record of adolescent pregnancy despite efforts by adolescent health providers to drastically reduce it.
Adolescents who had passed teenager years without giving birth were branded barren while those who were poor, engaged in transactional sex to care for themselves.
It was also that there are a lot of brothels in Tema Newtown where adolescents engage in child prostitution and solicit for clients and curb crawlers.They appealed to the Ghana Police Service and the Tema Traditional Council (TTC) to clear the area of such activities.
The review also revealed that there is lack of sex education from parents making most of the adolescents seek knowledge elsewhere and fall for peer pressure as their friends lure them into sexual activities with the excuse that they would not function well when they abstain.
According to them, activities such as school parties provided a fertile ground for sexual engagements as they mentioned for instance that “a recent one dubbed, ‘drop that uniform bash’ had twerking, free shisha, and light off sessions.” Under the religious factors, the health providers observe that churches in the area which numbered about 7,000 saw it as a taboo to educate the youth on sex as they believed that teaching them about it would pushed them into practicing it. They therefore appealed to the Tema Metropolitan Health Directorate to liaise with stakeholders, especially religious leaders, the traditional council, schools and the Tema Metropolitan Assembly to help formulate a sustainable solution to the high teenage pregnancy rate in the area.Latest Stories
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