Dhlomo has described the increase in teenage pregnancies in the country as a pandemic.
Deputy Minister of Health Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo has lamented the scourge of teenage pregnancies in the country, especially among black children.
Teen pregnancies in South Africa have been increasing over the last three years, with an estimated 150 000 girls in the age group 10- to 19 falling pregnant in the 2022/2023 financial year, according to the National Department of Social Development. As the country marks Youth Month, “Let us be very realistic with the facts, this teenage pregnancy is not homogeneously allover South Africa, it is actually focusing on the African child. Now, we need to really look back and say what are the challenges there, what are the things that you don’t find in the white communities, or vice versa that are actually making that these children are vulnerable to teenage pregnancy.
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