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MYRIA
For today’s headline ‘Review sex education amid teen pregnancies’
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MANUEL
MANILA, Philippines — With one out of 10 teenagers aged 15 to 19 getting
pregnant, the Department of Education (DepEd) should check comprehensive
sexuality education programs to prevent female learners from dropping out of
school due to pregnancy, Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian said.
“If they are not aware of sex education, not aware of their bodies, not aware of
the perils if they get pregnant early, they would drop out. The problem with
that is they will never go back to school. The way forward is to prevent,” the
senator said as he presided over the committee on basic education hearing on
the analysis of the Program for International Student Assessment 2022 Results
for the Philippines.

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MYRIA
Negros Occidental Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson expressed alarm over the high
number of cases with 11,297 teenagers in his province getting pregnant in 2022
and 2023.
Records showed the youngest to get pregnant was 12 years old, according to
the Provincial Health Office. Most of the teenage mothers are out-of-school
youth, the report said.
Of the 35,628 pregnancies last year, teenagers accounted for 5,721. The PHO
recorded 5,576 cases of teenage pregnancy in 2022.

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