We Are Told To H@ve $$x To Ease Menstrual Pain’ – SHS Girl Discloses.
It was both a revealing session and a moment of advocacy when the Ashanti Regional Youth Network (ARYN) sought to find out from Senior High School students the factors fueling the high rates of teenage pregnancy in the Ashanti Region.
While some students pointed to myths of easing their menstrual cramps through having $$x and having $$x to prevent future fibroids, others disclosed that colleagues who refrained from sexual conduct were deemed dull and antiquated.
“Those of us with painful menstrual cycles, they say if we go have $$x before your menses starts, it will ease your pain,” a student intimated.
“They tell us it’s fun. They say if you don’t take part in it, you can get fibroid. They will also call you ‘john’ if you don’t join in,” another student told Ultimate News’ Ivan Heathcote – Fumador.
The outreach sessions of the Ashanti Region Youth Network to Senior High Schools form part of a rather daunting task to reduce the enormous Teenage pregnancy burden in the Ashanti Region.
Out of the 555,575 cases of teens who got pregnant in Ghana between 2016 and 2020, a whopping 89,856 were in the Ashanti Region – a number that will need more than twice the size of the Baba Yara Sports stadium to contain.
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While the Ashanti Region has topped in teenage pregnancy statistics for three consecutive years, it is estimated that each year, up to 30% of school girls aged between 14 and 19 drop out of school because they got pregnant.
The prevalence get worse in poor communities where girls trade the act for a pittance to buy personal effects
Through the ARYN campaigns done in partnership with Ghana Education Service (GES), the students are taken through seminars on $$xual Reproductive Health and the power of making healthy choices to prevent unwanted pregnancies and $$xual transmitted infections.
A facilitator and Chief Education Officer with Maristopes International Savior Mansah told newsmen that the huge numbers of unwanted pregnancies and lifelong sexual complications could be curbed if young girls were armed with the right information.
“We taught them abstinence and other natural methods they can adopt to protect themselves. With the information, they now know the dangers that they may lose their fertility, lose their uterus, or even their lives if they choose to indulge in it. For those who will still want to go ahead they which they are doing anyway, they will do things the right way to protect themselves,” he noted.
The participants were taken through the menstrual cycle, pregnancy complications for immature bodies, and a host of $$xual transmitted diseases.
They were allowed a well-patronized questions and answer session as well as focus group discussions on factors fueling the craze for $$x among the youth.
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We Are Told To H@ve $$x To Ease Menstrual Pain’ – SHS Girl Discloses.
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