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Andhra Pradesh Women’s Commission Chairperson Rayapati Sailaja connected Wednesday said concerted efforts to forestall teenage pregnancies were crucial, requiring a multi-stakeholder attack to code the health, social, and economical consequences of aboriginal motherhood.
Speaking astatine a State level consultation connected “Multi-Sectoral Strategies to Prevent Teenage Pregnancies successful Andhra Pradesh”, Dr. Sailaja stressed the request to standard up consciousness among not lone children but besides their parents to forestall kid marriages and teenage pregnancies. She said the absorption should beryllium connected accomplishment improvement done vocational acquisition courses to heighten employability among younker and suggested that sarpanches and section leaders successful colony and mandal-level committees beryllium progressive and assigned with circumstantial responsibilities.
The women’s sheet main said arsenic portion of broad efforts to curb teenage pregnancies, the Commission was implementing an integrated enactment program with the people of reducing specified cases to beneath 5 % done coordination among each departments.
She said young girls should beryllium made to recognize the adverse consequences of teenage pregnancies and kid marriages done structured wellness modules. She said teenage gestation cases were being reported from assorted parts of the State, with comparatively higher prevalence successful bureau areas specified arsenic Paderu and aboriginal successful Kurnool district. She directed the authorities acrophobic to initiate contiguous and effectual steps to instrumentality the decisions and strategies formulated during this consciousness seminar.
Speaking astir the value of creating consciousness among schoolhouse children regarding Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) rights and idiosyncratic safety, she said identifying schoolhouse dropouts and re-enrolling them successful acquisition institutions would importantly assistance successful addressing the issue.
She said the officials acrophobic should absorption connected providing vocational grooming to girls aged 15 to 16 and above, fortify them economically, and transmission their clip towards productive activities. The Health Department would hole and administer peculiar wellness modules focusing connected reproductive wellness and menstrual hygiene, she said.
