Unplanned pregnancies among Nigerian teenagers and young women have risen despite improvements in educational levels, a report found.
In 2003, 16 per cent of pregnancies among girls and women aged 15-24 had been unintended, compared with 10% in 1990.
The study from the New York-based Guttmacher Institute said low use of contraceptives was partially to blame.
The institute said Nigerian authorities had failed to promote segxwal health information for young Nigerians.
It found the proportion of adolescent women with some secondary education had increased 16 percentage points (from 34 perc cent to 50 per cent) between 1990 and 2003.
But over the same period, the use of modern contraceptive methods among segxwally active adolescent women in Nigeria had changed very little, from four per cent to eight per cent.
Also in that time, the proportion of segxwally active young women who knew where to access family planning services nearly halved, from 32 per cent to 18 per cent, found the report - which analysed health data from Nigerian authorities and non-governmental-organisations.
Nearly one-third of segxwally active women aged 15-24 had had an unmet need for modern contraception in 2003, found the study.
“We are failing Nigerian adolescents when it comes to providing them with the information and services. They need to delay marriage and avoid unintended pregnancies,” said the report’s co-author, Professor Friday Okonofua.
She said this was leaving young women at risk from unwanted pregnancies and segxwally-transmitted diseases, such as HIV.
The study also noted the population of Nigeria - Africa’s most-populous nation, with 150 million people - was growing by 2.2% annually, and at that rate would double every 32 years.
diplomatik at 19-06-2009 03:54 PM (14 years ago) (f)
reading through.....
u've seen me right? i look kool right? ???but don't send me mails asking for my add or phone no. and don't give it to me either , i'll ask u if i want it ..ok...kool
Posted: at 19-06-2009 03:54 PM (14 years ago) | Addicted Hero
diplomatik at 19-06-2009 04:00 PM (14 years ago) (f)
Quote from: sandie on 19-06-2009 03:56 PM
Quote from: diplomatik on 19-06-2009 03:54 PM
reading through.....
Lol...bbz whats up
good good....u?
u've seen me right? i look kool right? ???but don't send me mails asking for my add or phone no. and don't give it to me either , i'll ask u if i want it ..ok...kool
Posted: at 19-06-2009 04:00 PM (14 years ago) | Addicted Hero
diplomatik at 19-06-2009 04:08 PM (14 years ago) (f)
Quote from: macgreat on 19-06-2009 03:57 PM
Na the thing wey dey rain be that
Samy go soon get one girl pregnant
lmao...
u've seen me right? i look kool right? ???but don't send me mails asking for my add or phone no. and don't give it to me either , i'll ask u if i want it ..ok...kool
Posted: at 19-06-2009 04:08 PM (14 years ago) | Addicted Hero
new york based institute...nd there result based on health data... d so called health data cant even tell u how many deaths dat occured in march 2008.. nor give d number of births....talking abt contraceptives....try those in rural communities. where thousands of child births occure every month inside some tiny huts...where old women r d undisputed midwives in child births...some rural areas where it is a must for a girl to marry immediately she reaches puberty....where men r allowed to conscript women of there choice in d name of marriage through family dealings or friendship..
these r all charade...4rm so educational programmes dat doesnt involve or get through to real ppl dat need it...to a so called health care data...then a new york institute.
Posted: at 19-06-2009 04:10 PM (14 years ago) | Hero
shanique at 19-06-2009 04:11 PM (14 years ago) (f)
mazi the mazi...i didnt think u were dis intelligent..
U SwEaR U KnOw Me CuZ Ya HeArD My NaMe BuT iF Ya EvA rEaLLy MeT Me YuD KnOw Da GaMe dRaMa NeVa EnDs And HaTaS ArE aLL tHa SaMe tHeY sMiLe To Ya FacE aNd sPiT oN yA NaMe
Posted: at 19-06-2009 04:11 PM (14 years ago) | Hero
diplomatik at 19-06-2009 04:13 PM (14 years ago) (f)
Quote from: SAmyrocko on 19-06-2009 04:12 PM
Quote from: diplomatik on 19-06-2009 04:08 PM
Quote from: macgreat on 19-06-2009 03:57 PM
Na the thing wey dey rain be that
Samy go soon get one girl pregnant
lmao...
whats funny?
Too bad for him..l don born already.
u born...for who
u've seen me right? i look kool right? ???but don't send me mails asking for my add or phone no. and don't give it to me either , i'll ask u if i want it ..ok...kool
Posted: at 19-06-2009 04:13 PM (14 years ago) | Addicted Hero
hope4real at 19-06-2009 04:21 PM (14 years ago) (f)
ahhhhhhhhhhhh may God dELIVER NIGERIANS from this can of evil practice such as unwanted pregnacies which God is not Happy with Sodom and Gommora do the same and God distroyed then with water I pray that we reapent so that God will not distroyed this country (AMEN).
Evil immorarity such as FORNICANIUTION and IDULLATRY ARE EVIL so fly away from it stop givin birth to basterd Children and if u have given birth to any do not give birth to more AGAIN
benjsonic at 19-06-2009 04:40 PM (14 years ago) (m)
u're right cos of some people back ground, despite the fact that some were well trained, they still went ahead and disgrace themselve, destroyed their future, may God help us and guid our children.
Posted: at 19-06-2009 04:40 PM (14 years ago) | Newbie
diplomatik at 19-06-2009 04:44 PM (14 years ago) (f)
Quote from: SAmyrocko on 19-06-2009 04:40 PM
Quote from: diplomatik on 19-06-2009 04:13 PM
Quote from: SAmyrocko on 19-06-2009 04:12 PM
Quote from: diplomatik on 19-06-2009 04:08 PM
Quote from: macgreat on 19-06-2009 03:57 PM
Na the thing wey dey rain be that
Samy go soon get one girl pregnant
lmao...
whats funny?
Too bad for him..l don born already.
u born...for who
see question...lol
no be u talk am....
u've seen me right? i look kool right? ???but don't send me mails asking for my add or phone no. and don't give it to me either , i'll ask u if i want it ..ok...kool
Posted: at 19-06-2009 04:44 PM (14 years ago) | Addicted Hero
sandie
SAmyrocko
diplomatik
i look kool right? ???but don't send me mails asking for my add or phone no. and don't give it to me either 
, i'll ask u if i want it ..ok...kool 
macgreat
mazi
shanique
hope4real
benjsonic
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