{"id":297371,"date":"2017-02-27T06:00:31","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T06:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=297371"},"modified":"2017-02-27T06:00:31","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T06:00:31","slug":"teachers-drivers-impregnate-977-teenagers-in-central-region-infographic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=297371","title":{"rendered":"Teachers, drivers impregnate 977 teenagers in Central Region [Infographic]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rate of teenage pregnancy in the Central Region has in the last 5 years seen a decline. However, officials of the Ghana Health Service say the current figure of 12,048 recorded in 2016 is still &#8220;unacceptably high&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div id=\"stcpDiv\">A performance review of 2016 by Ghana Health Service (GHS) in the Central Region revealed that most of the pregnant teenagers were currently single while others were cohabiting with their partners.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A survey of 5,000 of the pregnant teenagers revealed that small-scale farmers, drivers and teachers were among the top groups of people who impregnated teenage girls in the year under review.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Citi News&#8217;<\/strong> Jonas Nyabor captures details of the 2016 performance review on teengage pregnancy in the region in the infographic below.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/teenage-pregnancy-infographic\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-297424\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Teenage-pregnancy-infographic.png\" alt=\"teenage-pregnancy-infographic\" width=\"3389\" height=\"2888\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/02\/23\/teachers-impregnate-301-teenagers-in-central-region\/\"><strong>Click here<\/strong><\/a><\/span> to read more from the report.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Jonas Nyabor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jnyabor\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @jnyabor<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rate of teenage pregnancy in the Central Region has in the last 5 years seen a decline. However, officials of the Ghana Health Service say the current figure of 12,048 recorded in 2016 is still &#8220;unacceptably high&#8221;. A performance review of 2016 by Ghana Health Service (GHS) in the Central Region revealed that most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2419,11],"tags":[4462,3,2706,3748],"class_list":["post-297371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infographics","category-top-stories","tag-central-region-infographic","tag-ghana-news","tag-jonas-nyabor","tag-teenage-pregnancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=297371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}