KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): About 100,000 cases of teenage pregnancy have been reported since 2013, says Deputy Women, Family and Community Development Minister Hannah Yeoh.
KUALA LUMPUR : About 100,000 cases of teenage pregnancy have been reported since 2013, says Deputy Women, Family and Community Development Minister Hannah Yeoh .“Of the 900 reported cases of abandoned babies, only 30% are still alive. As such, the government will implement various measures to tackle this problem," she said Friday .
“At present, it is known as Physical and Health Education. The syllabus for sex education was first taught to students at the age of 15, but based on statistics from the Health Ministry, girls and boys as young as 13 were already involved in undesirable activities,” she said. Yeoh said her ministry was also in the process of identifying hotspots of cases and waiting to get the mapping from the police as well as sharing data from other ministries in order to implement more effective measures.
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