NIGERIA. Lagos. Ita Elewa Primary Healthcare. 05 December 2022. Nurse Chima having a group counseling session on family planning and safe sex with young mothers.

As much as contraceptive prevalence is low, teenage pregnancy is still really high in Nigeria. Beyond putting girls' lives at risk, a pregnancy contributes to school dropouts, which prevents from getting skills that would enable them to later be independent and take care of themselves.