{"id":38325,"date":"2015-05-04T16:32:20","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T15:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=38325"},"modified":"2015-05-04T16:32:20","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T15:32:20","slug":"sambisa-rescue-some-girls-are-pregnant-un-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/sambisa-rescue-some-girls-are-pregnant-un-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Sambisa rescue: Some girls are pregnant&#8212;-UN Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1430748985144_23027\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">There are indications that at least 214 of the 687 girls and women rescued by the Nigerian military from Sambisa last week are \u201cat various stages of pregnancy\u201d.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">\u00a0Babatunde Osotimehin a professor and executive director of the United Nations Population Fund, who made this disclosure added that \u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0the agency had taken delivery of about\u00a016,000 pregnancies in the north-east.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\">\u00a0He added that it\u00a0was working with the federal and state governments to restore the dignity of the girls and help them overcome severe\u00a0psycho-social trauma before reintegrating them into the society.<\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\">\u201cWhat we found is that some of the women and girls that have come back actually have much more in terms of the stress they have faced, so the counselling has to be more intense and working with them one-on-one,\u201d he said<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\">\u201cI saw so many women and children who have so much stress written all over them, some were lost in their lonely world oblivious of where they are and many showed signs that they obviously had been traumatized by their various experiences.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1430748985144_22968\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\">\u201cAlready, many of them are undergoing screening for various diseases, infections including HIV\/AIDS and about 214 of those already screened were discovered to be at various stages of pregnancies, some visibly pregnant and some just tested pregnant; but we are supporting all of them with various levels of care to stabilize them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\">\u201cI\u2019m glad the communities are not excommunicating them and are taking them back. 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We anticipate this is going to escalate because the military intervention is continuing, we find that more people are now needing our services and we will continue.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1430748985144_23032\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\">He explained that in conflict and disasters, most people would only think of water and sanitation, provision of tents and housing, and food, which are all important, but women and girls have specific needs that nobody else looks like.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1430748985144_23033\" style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are indications that at least 214 of the 687 girls and women rescued by the Nigerian military from Sambisa last week are \u201cat various stages of pregnancy\u201d. \u00a0Babatunde Osotimehin&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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