24-11-2006 10:35
The number of teens getting pregnant has decreased, a survey has illustrated.
The news arrives after the unveilling of a government aim in 1999 to cut the number of teenages conceiving in half by 2010.
Between 1998 and 2003 pregnant under 18s fell by three per cent a year. Researchers observed 148 towns and the reduction rate was highest in poor and rural areas.
Prof Paul Wilkinson, commenting in the medical journal The Lancet, said:"The fall has been steady rather than precipitous."
Experts have stated that further aid is required to reach the strategy's goal, divulges the Mirror newspaper.
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