Thousands of Colombian girls under 14 pregnant each year
Almost 20,000 Colombian girls under the age of 14 became pregnant between 2011 and 2013, according...
Tag: Teen pregnancy
Cali teen pregnancy drops 31% since 2005: Govt
Health authorities in Colombia’s third largest city are welcoming figures that show a marked...
Colombia to investigate sex roulette ‘game’
Colombian authorities announced Monday they will begin investigating “sex roulette,” a...
Colombia teen pregnancy worst in Latin America: Santos
As he signed legislation on youth education programs, President Juan Manuel Santos reminded the country on Friday of the high rate of teen pregnancy in Colombia. “We have to recognize that in this specific aspect [teen...
Colombia aims to combat teen pregnancy with regular check‐ups
Colombia’s Congress wants to fight teen pregnancy, dubbed one of the main causes of poverty in Colombia, by ways of regular checks on young women. A new bill seeks to combat sexually transmitted diseases as well as teen...
Colombians inattentive to child pregnancies: ICBF
There have allegedly been 144 cases of girls between the ages of 10 and 14 years becoming pregnant this year in Colombia, reported local media Friday. Colombia has registered 1,125 cases of pregnant women under 18 so far this...
Under-14 pregnancy in Bogota on the decline
The number of pregnancies in girls aged between 10 and 14 in Bogota has begun to decrease, breaking a 10-year long pattern of increasing teen pregnancy. According to the district Health Secretary Jose Bernal Conde, the figure...
