The Fund has given the Ministry of Public Health 10 motorcycle ambulances to improve access to the safe motherhood programme. Benin faces major constraints in involving youth and men in reproductive health programmes. Adolescents who engage in sexual activity hesitate to use public clinics for fear of being stigmatized. While abortion is illegal, young women and girls often resort to it when they get pregnant. Treatments for unsafe abortions increase significantly when schools are about to resume.
Many young girls die.
Rather, they should be able to bear healthy children when they choose. P.O. Box 506, Cotonou, Benin.