Honduras: an alarming number of pregnant minors – El Heraldo

Thank to the newspaper, El Heraldo: http://www.elheraldo.hn/Ediciones/2011/04/20/Noticias/Honduras-alarma-numero-de-menores-embarazadas
My quick translation:

Tegucigalpa, Honduras

In Honduras, each day increases the number of minors who are pregnant. The statistics of the girls fluctuate, but nevertheless, the figures are high....

"The alarming thing is that we are talking about children, aged 8 and older," said Watson [representative of the World Health Organization WHO and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) in Honduras]

The representative of WHO said that 30 percent of pregnant women are minors. She said that in the hospital school, a girl of 9 years had been a mother.

She said the phenomenon was explained by the high levels of violence and sexual abuse, as many "of those pregnancies are unwanted and unintended."

Maternal mortality

"80 percent of maternal deaths worldwide are preventable," declared the representative.

She said most of the reasons for the deaths of women in a state of pregnancy are due to factors such as lack of quality of care.

"Many women come to health centers when they are about to have the baby, " she assured.

According to data provided by the United Nations until 2000, the maternal death rate was 119 women per 100,000 live births.

In 1990 was 182 per 100,000 women.