{"id":89654,"date":"2026-05-25T19:40:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T19:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=89654"},"modified":"2026-05-25T19:40:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T19:40:45","slug":"sierra-leone-has-a-teenage-pregnancy-crisis-aid-cuts-arent-helping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/25\/sierra-leone-has-a-teenage-pregnancy-crisis-aid-cuts-arent-helping\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone has a teenage pregnancy crisis. Aid cuts aren\u2019t helping"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA23ZGxh.img?w=768&amp;h=512&amp;m=6\" alt=\"A consultant room in the AFC (Leah Godfrey\/Plan International)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a crowded room in a town in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/sierra-leone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Sierra Leone<\/a>\u2019s Tonkolili District, adolescent girls sit shoulder to shoulder in plastic chairs, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/sierra-leone-has-a-teenage-pregnancy-crisis-aid-cuts-aren-t-helping\/ar-AA23ZNLV?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&amp;cvid=21eac539c3964b398ea4c893968ee7cb&amp;ei=31\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>In a crowded room in a town in\u00a0Sierra Leone\u2019s Tonkolili District, adolescent girls sit shoulder to shoulder in plastic chairs, Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/pregnant-minor.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89655,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89654\/revisions\/89655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}