The Suhum Government Hospital recorded 760 pregnancies of girls within the ages of 11 and 19 in March 2000, Mr Yaw Takyi Mensah, officer-in-charge of HIV/AIDS programmes in the Suhum-Kraboa-Coaltar District has said.
He was addressing a seminar on HIV/AIDS awareness organised by the Truth and Life Evangelical Ministry at Dokrochiwa in the Suhum-Kraboa-Coaltar District at the weekend. Mr Mensah said the situation was alarming since all the teenagers had unprotected sex and had been exposed to the dangers of contracting sexually transmitted diseases or HIV/AIDS.
Mr Mensah said between 1997 and 2001, 488 cases of HIV/AIDS had been registered at the Suhum Government hospital. The breakdown is as follows: 77 in 1997, 101 in 1998, 110 in 1999, 79 in 2000 and 101 in 2001. As at the end of July this year, 77 cases had also been registered at the hospital.
