Vice President’s wife Charlotte
Scott has emphasised the need for young people to have vital information that would
enable them live better so that they could make informed decisions to unplanned
teenage pregnancies.
Mrs. Scott noted that these
unplanned pregnancies in young girls mostly led to unsafe abortions and high
prevalence rate of HIV.
ZANIS reports that speaking when she
officiated at the Planned Parenthood Association of Zambia (PPAZ) general
conference at Andrews Motel in Lusaka today, the second lady observed that if
the country did not pay particular attention to the young people’s sexual and
reproductive health needs, it’s future was being risked.
She said it was therefore important
to enforce and safeguard the reproductive health rights of the young people by
creating an environment in which they would easily access information and
services needed.
Mrs. Scott also called upon young
people in Zambia to fully participate in programmes that were meant to benefit
them.
She further noted that the
association had served Zambia for a long time trying to meet the reproductive
health needs and aspirations of the Zambian people.
Mrs. Scott observed that the role of
PPAZ was to promote good reproductive health among women, men and the youth.
ZANIS
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