{"id":34602,"date":"2017-05-17T08:34:08","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T08:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/over-17-000-premature-unwanted-pregnancies\/"},"modified":"2017-05-19T08:16:39","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T08:16:39","slug":"over-17-000-premature-unwanted-pregnancies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/over-17-000-premature-unwanted-pregnancies\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 17,000 premature unwanted pregnancies recorded in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The Minister of Gender and Family Promotion (MIGEPROF),Nyirasafari Esp\u00e9rance has revealed that 17,500 girls in the 16-19 age bracket got premature unwanted pregnancies in 2016, an unfortunate experience that forced them out of school.}<\/p>\n<p>The minister revealed the appalling situation  today as she presented the Ministry draft budget of 2017\/2018 to  parliament.  Nyirasafari said the number is worrying and requires fortified interventions to avert the situation.  <\/p>\n<p>MP Munyangeyo Th\u00e9og\u00e8ne expressed concern over the premature pregnancies, calling for immediate action to ward off what she called a social epidemic. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have talked about these 17,000 but let\u2019s take it as an epidemic. Counteractive measures may not redeem the situation if it is handled with kid-gloves,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>MP Mporanyi Theobald stressed the need to prioritize efforts of  addressing the issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 17,000 unwanted pregnancies in one year is a worrying situation and reversing it should be a priority.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>Minister Nyirasafari  said that much as the boys and men that impregnate young girls  will be pursued, the Ministry has allocated part of 2017\/2018 budget to take care of child mothers and their children. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s not ignore the fact that culprits (fathers) should be brought in the equation. How does the Ministry of Health work with police to bring a culprit to book when  a child begets at such early age? We want information about the culprits and establish the mechanisms of bringing up the children,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-20077 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/migeprof-3-86ef9.jpg\" alt=\"The Minister of Gender and Family Promotion (MIGEPROF),Nyirasafari Esp\u00e9rance (right) with permanent secretary Nadine Gatsinzi\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The Minister of Gender and Family Promotion (MIGEPROF),Nyirasafari Esp\u00e9rance has revealed that 17,500 girls in the 16-19 age bracket got premature unwanted pregnancies in 2016, an unfortunate experience that forced them out of school.} The minister revealed the appalling situation today as she presented the Ministry draft budget of 2017\/2018 to parliament. Nyirasafari said the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-34602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34602"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=34602"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=34602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}