GHANAIAN TIMES

"Akwapim SSS breeding teenage mothers", is a front page headline in the Times. The accompanying story says a research has shown that 45 per cent of first-year female students enrolled in senior secondary schools in the Akwapim North District became pregnant before the end of the academic year. According to the Times the District Director of Health Services, Dr Sophia Winful, who disclosed this said the research was conducted by the Planned Parenthood Association of Ghana (PPAG) in selected senior secondary schools in the district. She was speaking at a symposium oreganised at Akropong in the Eastern Region by the PPAG as part of activities marking this year's 'Family Life Education Week' in the District. GRI

In another front page story the Times reports that the failure of most people in the northern sector of the country to complete the full course of drugs for malaria treatment has resulted in the disease developing resistance in 10 per cent of the population. The Times says a survey conducted by the Ministry of Health showed that the malaria parasites had become immuned to drugs such as chloroquine and other common and inexpensive medications. The paper quoted Dr Agana Nsiiri, Tamale Municipal Director of Health as announcing this when he addressed the annual general meeting of the Northern Regional branch of the Ghana Chemical Sellers' Association at Tamale. GRI