Teen moms in Peru pinpoint need for sexuality education, health services

LIMA, Peru –" I became pregnant at 14 years old, ” Angie told UNFPA. Now 19, she lives with her son in a low-income area on the margins of Peru’s capital, Lima, in the densely populated Villa El Salvador District.Angie recalls that she did not have the information she needed to avoid pregnancy. “I did not know about contraceptive methods. At high school, I still had not been given talks.”Jazmin, another young woman in Villa El Salvador District, says she also became pregnant at a young age. She became a mother at 17.
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