Manafwa — AT least 43 per cent of girls in Manafwa District become pregnated and turn into child mothers before they clock 16 years, a new study has shown.
Ms Joanne Leerloijer, a researcher from the Netherlands, conducted the study on sexuality among adolescents in the district between November 2004 and July 2005.
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