Francis Tayi-Koranteng, the Upper East Regional Director of the National Youth Authority (NYA) expresses absence of fundamental requirements including sterile cushions is pushing a young ladies in the district to participate in value-based sex.
He said destitution and powerlessness of guardians to give their little girls clean cushions and other fundamental requirements was a significant reason for expanding teen pregnancy in the Upper East Region.
Mr Tayi-Koranteng said the circumstance constrained numerous juvenile young ladies in the district to enjoy untrustworthy and hazardous sexual ways of behaving to meet their essential necessities "yet that more often than not leave them pregnant and they are compelled to exit school.
He was talking in Bolgatanga at a survey meeting to evaluate the exercises of some young gatherings on sexual and regenerative wellbeing projects the NYA had been executing in the locale.
The exercises framed piece of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) supported Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health project being carried out by NYA under the protection of the Upper East Regional Coordinating Council.
The undertaking is being carried out in six regions, Bongo, Bawku West, Talensi, Nabdam, Kassena-Nankana West and Builsa South and targets drawing in the adolescent to control young pregnancy.
Mr Tayi-Koranteng proposed a feasible strategy that would guarantee circulation of free sterile cushions to kids particularly those from unfortunate foundations.
He asked guardians to be more dependable in giving precise data on sexual and conceptive training to their youngsters particularly in their juvenile age and called for help to address the financial necessities of unfortunate families.
He proposed abilities preparing for the young ladies particularly the people who had exited school and their families, to engage them monetarily.
"Young ladies find it challenging to get sterile cushions and cash to try and take care of and assuming we are to handle the issue head on, one of the substantial things we ought to do is to take a gander at the fundamental requirements of these young ladies and when the young ladies are financially enabled it will keep men from exploiting them," he added.
Ms Yvonne Wonchua, the UNFPA Focal Person, Upper East Regional Coordinating Council, said teen pregnancy kept on being a curse to accomplishing orientation equality and the Sustainable Development Goals and called for aggregate endeavors to end the threat.
She prompted the young against participating in unprotected sex which could prompt spontaneous pregnancy and different confusions.
She further encouraged the adolescent to go about as envoys and instruct their companions on the unfriendly impacts of young pregnancy to their future and wellbeing and assist them with settling on informed choices in regards to their sexual life.
Ms Mary Azika, a Midwife at the Bolgatanga Municipal Health Directorate, noticed that wellbeing offices had cordial juvenile wellbeing corners where youngsters could look for data on their regenerative life and urged the adolescent to exploit them.
She noticed that separated from undesirable pregnancy that could result from reckless sexual way of behaving, one could contract contaminations including HIV/AIDS and exhorted the teenagers who couldn't go without to utilize contraceptives especially condoms to safeguard themselves.
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