Tuesday, 12 May, 2009
Health Matters: Teenage pregnancy
One in 10 births worldwide is to an adolescent mother, with particularly high numbers in the U.S. Dr. Michele Wright talks to Dr. Munir Islam, director of the ’Making pregnancy safer’ unit at the World Health Organisation.
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thanks for information
helpful for rethinking.
Interesting and very useful information.The statistics are alarming and needed urgent actions.
openly speakin,adolescent pregnancy can,t be stopped but these adolescents who find themselves in such a dilemma shuld be thoroughly educated on how they can take care of themselves and the child
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