Mexico City.-Following covid-19 confinement by the National Population Commission (CONAPO) Foresees a 20% increase in unplanned teenage pregnancies in México.De according to those reported by Gabriela Rodríguez Secretary General of the Council, the increase arises from the quarantine by Covid-19 where in addition to the cases presented annually in Mexico the unit provides for 145 thousand extra unplanned pregnancies , in addition to the 373,600 already planned.
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He added that the estimate is not for generating stigmatization. Yes, not to work on prevention to reduce these types of pregnancies, as one of the goals is for pregnancy in girls under the age of 15 to disappear. She added that every year about 9,800 girls become pregnant, an average of 27 daily so it is important to attack the problem as, no girl should be a mother. In addition to pregnancies, Conapo experts also noted that Mexico is one of the countries with the highest rates of specific fertility in adolescents among the member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) because according to statistics, one in five births comes from a teenage mother. In this context, they noted that the strategy began in 2015, bringing the adolescent fertility rate down by 7.8% despite the fact that the figure has been lowered. the rate is still high as for every thousand pregnancies there are 68 in women under the age of 19. about a thousand births a day by teenage mothers.
