‘Re-open debate on schools condom kiosks’

HEALTH and Child Care Parliamentary Portfolio Committee chairperson, Ruth Labode has said there is need to re-open debate over the distribution of condoms in schools in view of the revelations that thousands of children are falling pregnant every year.

Primary and Secondary Education minister Lazarus Dokora last week told the National Assembly that 4 500 Grade Seven pupils dropped out of school this year owing to pregnancies and child marriages.

“What the minister presented is just the tip of an iceberg because what he did not state to us is how many young girls die from illegal abortions as there are so many of them,” she said.

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