'Politicians have duty to teen health'
POLITICIANS have a duty to intervene to reduce teenage pregnancies, Scotland's public health minister insisted yesterday.
Shona Robison said she believed politicians could not just sit back and watch teen pregnancy rates fail to drop and sexually transmitted infections rise.
Ms Robison was speaking at the World Health Organisation's first pan-European event, in Edinburgh, for experts to look at how health services can meet the needs of young people.
In Scotland, teenage pregnancy rates remain high. In 2006 and 2007, there were 8.1 pregnancies per 1,000 youngsters under the age of 16. Other countries, such as the Netherlands, have much lower rates, which has been put down to early sex education in schools.
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