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The Eastern Region recorded 8,174 teenage pregnancies as of September 2021, up from 7,976 recorded within the same period in 2020, the Ghana Health Service has said. Of the cases, 12.6 percent represent girls aged 10 to 14 years, while 12.2 percent represent girls between the ages 15 to 19. …

A total of 473 girls in the Central Region, who were either pregnant or breastfeeding, have returned to school. A representative of the National Girls Education Unit (GEU) of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Mrs Philomena Panyin Buckman, who revealed this, said the achievement was made through the efforts of …