Tema, April 16, GNA – Mr. Faisal Bawa, the Programme Officer, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Ghana has urged parents to be responsible for their wards’ upbringing to become successful in the future.

He said parents tend to benefit more when their wards become successful adding that education is the key to success, and advised parents to also educate their wards on sex education and its effects to help them abstain from sex.

Mr Bawa said this during an engagement with the Ghana Federation of Urban Poor (GHAFUP) organized by UNFPA and UN- HABITAT at Ashaiman.

He cautioned parents to check up on their wards once a while in school because some teenagers of late do not report to school when they leave home without the knowledge of their parents.

Mr Bawa said parents could also call schoolteachers to ask about the performance of their wards to serve as checks on the wards.

He mentioned that adolescents may engage in prostitution which would lead to unsafe and unwanted pregnancies, STDs, and HIV AIDS.

UNFPA is the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency aimed at delivering a world where, every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled.

UNFPA partners with governments and others to strengthen health systems, train health workers, educate midwives and improve access to the full range of reproductive health.

UNFPA calls for the realization of reproductive rights for all and supports access to a wide range of sexual and reproductive health services, including voluntary family planning, maternal health care, and comprehensive sexuality education.

Ms. Theodora Okpojah, Sub-Municipal Head Nurse in Amuidjor in the Ashaiman Municipality also revealed that family planning methods help improve maternal health and child survival, reduce the number of unsafe abortion, prevents Sexually

Transmitted Infections (STIs), including HIV/AIDS, and promotes social and economic development and security.

She, therefore, debunked the notion that Family Planning affects fertility, stressing “no matter the method used or how long it does not affect fertility, as it is only designed to temporarily delay fertility and prevent pregnancy within a certain period.”

Speaking on the topic: “Sexual and reproductive health, teenage pregnancy and family planning,” Ms. Okpojah said when one stops applying the method normal fertility levels are restored.

She said health practitioners take time to educate mothers on family planning methods, their benefits, and effects before one is allowed to apply them; additionally, “the health practitioners undertake routine check-ups and occasionally resort to laboratory test to identify their health problems and needs.

She said family planning suppressed ovulation which results in irregular or zero periods adding that “this can go on for some months after you stop the injections”.

GNA

Tema, April 16, GNA – Mr. Faisal Bawa, the Programme Officer, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Ghana has urged parents to be responsible for their wards’ upbringing to become successful in the future.

He said parents tend to benefit more when their wards become successful adding that education is the key to success, and advised parents to also educate their wards on sex education and its effects to help them abstain from sex.

Mr Bawa said this during an engagement with the Ghana Federation of Urban Poor (GHAFUP) organized by UNFPA and UN- HABITAT at Ashaiman.

He cautioned parents to check up on their wards once a while in school because some teenagers of late do not report to school when they leave home without the knowledge of their parents.

Mr Bawa said parents could also call schoolteachers to ask about the performance of their wards to serve as checks on the wards.

He mentioned that adolescents may engage in prostitution which would lead to unsafe and unwanted pregnancies, STDs, and HIV AIDS.

UNFPA is the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency aimed at delivering a world where, every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled.

UNFPA partners with governments and others to strengthen health systems, train health workers, educate midwives and improve access to the full range of reproductive health.

UNFPA calls for the realization of reproductive rights for all and supports access to a wide range of sexual and reproductive health services, including voluntary family planning, maternal health care, and comprehensive sexuality education.

Ms. Theodora Okpojah, Sub-Municipal Head Nurse in Amuidjor in the Ashaiman Municipality also revealed that family planning methods help improve maternal health and child survival, reduce the number of unsafe abortion, prevents Sexually

Transmitted Infections (STIs), including HIV/AIDS, and promotes social and economic development and security.

She, therefore, debunked the notion that Family Planning affects fertility, stressing “no matter the method used or how long it does not affect fertility, as it is only designed to temporarily delay fertility and prevent pregnancy within a certain period.”

Speaking on the topic: “Sexual and reproductive health, teenage pregnancy and family planning,” Ms. Okpojah said when one stops applying the method normal fertility levels are restored.

She said health practitioners take time to educate mothers on family planning methods, their benefits, and effects before one is allowed to apply them; additionally, “the health practitioners undertake routine check-ups and occasionally resort to laboratory test to identify their health problems and needs.

She said family planning suppressed ovulation which results in irregular or zero periods adding that “this can go on for some months after you stop the injections”.

GNA