President Luis Abinader was accompanied by First Lady Raquel Arbaje when he announced on Tuesday, 8 December 2021 at the Presidential Palace, an action plan to reduce child unions and teenage pregnancies. He said the efforts seek to turn around the present situation where 77 out of every 1,000 women between 15 and 19 years of age have already become mothers.
The action aims to unite the efforts of all government institutions and several civil society institutions to reduce statistics such as that of teenagers giving birth to 35% of births in public hospitals. 22% of these teenagers are less than 15 years old.
“If these problems persist, we will never achieve true socioeconomic development (…) it is necessary to give quality of life and dignity to the Dominican people,” said President Luis Abinader in making the announcement of the plan...
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