Education officials in Malawi’s Mangochi district are reporting over 7,000 teenage girls in the locality have gotten pregnant since the country’s government ordered the closure of schools some four months ago to curb the spread of COVID-19. Speaking to local online news platform, Nyasa Times, Peter Malipa, the Youth Friendly Health Services Coordinator for the...

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