Sun, 29 Jan 2017 10:41:30 +0000 By AARON CHIYANZO GOVERNMENT is worried about the increase in the number of adolescent girls dying as a result of teenage pregnancies, Health minister Chitalu Chilufya has said. Dr Chilufya said that there were many adolescents who lost their lives because of the effects associated with teenage pregnancy. Speaking at the 37th General Conference for Planned Parenthood Association of Zambia (PPAZ), Dr Chilufya said that adolescents posed a key challenge in Government’s provision of sexual reproductive health services. Dr Chilufya pointed out that adolescents faced a lot of challenges during child delivery such as obstructed labour, pregnancy-induced hypertension and obstetric fistula. He said that adolescents were more likely to be infected with HIV/AIDS and that even recent studies had proved so. Dr Chilufya challenged PPAZ to be in the forefront supporting sexual anti-reproductive health for the girl child to minimise adolescent deaths. “It is Government’s hope that your […]
