Young girls between the ages of 10 and 16 years actively engage in sexual relationships with their peers and older men at Akyem Sekyere and catchment areas like Abekoase, Subriso, Ahenkrasu and part of Monsie. “The rate at which teenage and adolescent girls are getting pregnant is very alarming and it is going out of hand here in the Atewa District. “In some of our engagements with these pregnant teenage girls, they tell us that some of the parents forcibly send them out to go and get money from the illegal miners. Teenage girls could get infected with HIV/AIDSWith the high teenage pregnancy cases recorded in the Atewa District, the Ghana AIDS Commission is alarmed. “If 30 young girls are getting pregnant and dropping out of school then this is very serious.

Source: GhanaWeb January 08, 2018 13:41 UTC