Mr Motsoaledi said some pregnant girls - aged between 10 and 14 years of age - also tested positive for HIV.
Three out of 10 U.S. girls get pregnant at least once before their 20th birthday.
We shouldn't shame our young girls who get pregnant, but surely it shouldn't be seen as a blue-ribbon day.
However, if these girls don't get pregnant and are able to stay in school, everything changes.
It turns out that with the father being involved, the kids are less likely to do drugs, they're less likely to -- girls are less likely to get pregnant.
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American high-school girls were 33% less likely to get pregnant in 2001 than in 1991.
In 2011, 34.2 girls out of every 1, 000 fell pregnant in Wales compared to 30.7 in England.
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Catalina Escobar Catalina Escobar is helping young moms in Colombia, where one in five girls age 15-19 is or has been pregnant.
In many countries girls marry at a very young age, become pregnant too early and cut short their education to take care of their young family.
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The Colombian government reports that nearly 20% of girls between 15 and 19 years old are or have been pregnant -- nearly triple the U.S. rate.
In addition, courses for pregnant teenagers and mothers on baby and childcare, and a concerted drive to reverse policies which prevent pregnant teenagers staying in school, and the foundations for a revolution in teenage girls' lives are in place.
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African-Americans, girls, and adolescents with behavioral problems had a higher likelihood of getting pregnant or impregnating someone, as did youths who intend to have children early, the study showed.
The proposals, amendments to a large education bill, will seek to improve computer technology to meet the learning styles of girls, reduce sexual harassment in schools, gather statistics on girls' participation in high school sports and develop ways to help keep pregnant and parenting teens in school.
"Despite enormous advances for women and girls in education since 1972, schools across the country continue to bar pregnant and parenting students from activities, kick them out of school, pressure them to attend alternative programmes, and penalise them for pregnancy-related absences, " the centre said in the report.
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