A medical practitioner, Dr Godwin Uwaoma, said on Thursday that girls in Aba, Abia engage in active sexual activities from the age of 10, raising higher chances of contracting HIV.
Uwaoma, the Chairman of the Thematic Working Group at the Nigerian Faith Based Advisory Council for AIDS (NFACA), told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Aba that a 2014 research revealed the development.
He said that the study was conducted to find out the awareness of preventive measures among youths in the secondary schools for the Department of Public Health at the Imo State University.
“We discovered that some girls in Aba start sexual activities at the age 10 to 12 and that at the age of 12, girls in Aba have “regular boyfriends” with whom they agree to have sex regularly.
“This was not known before. Usually HIV prevention was targeted at age 15 upward but we now know that before 15 they have become sexually active.
“And there is a lot of difference between when you are forced into it and you remove yourself thereafter and when at this age you now have a regular partner.
“That was what we discovered and it is not normal but an aberration but obviously the fact is there,” he said.
At a lecture organised by the Aba chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) to mark their week, Uwaoma called for prevention rather than cure which was unavailable for HIV cases.
He urged the students to desist from watching pornographic films.

http://thenationonlineng.net/girls-aba-start-sex-age-10-research/

Mtcheeew

This is a serious matter...



At this age bracket, girls and boys are supposed to enjoy their lives like a normal kids do than engaging their selves sexually at a very tender age...smh...

Laveda:
Mtcheeew

Now where is your human sympathy? Girls in Aba start sex at age 10 and you're hissing?

Now tell me, who deserve sympathy more: a ten year old girl, or a 25 year old girl?

It's in your hands.

Lies

firstking01:
Lies

How do you know?

When I tell people that comprehensive sex education should be inculcated into the primary school curriculum, they keep arguing.


Smh!

Btw op did the research cover all the girls in Aba

Why generalize

Very shocking

This is barberic!

What would my fellow nairalanders say about this, cos when I commented about the 14yrs old girl, most were calling for my head, now see 10-12 yrs old girls already in the practice.
I just think sex has its own mentality, if a 10yrs old is bold enough to try it and another 30yrs old still wants to keep her virginity. what ever rocks their boat. #saynotounderagesex!

You cant really blame them when parents are not always at home but at business places for hustle to put food on the tables. I am not trying to take sides, throw shades or even blame lay blame on the Igbos..The fact is, those people are more business minded.

I think a campaign should be taken to Secondary schools and the upper house should pass a resolution to inculcate Sexual education into the curriculum because the way and manner young people engage in Sexual activities/relationship at a tender age is alarming. Also, this pose a big treat to their future and to the society at large.
Parents and those seeing this should educate their wards and the younger ones around will go a long way too because the future is pregnant as it seems and we don't know what it will give birth to.

Big lie.

In calabar in its 8-9....seen and confirmed...

SalomonKane:
Now where is your human sympathy? Girls in Aba start sex at age 10 and you're hissing?

Now tell me, who deserve sympathy more: a ten year old girl, or a 25 year old girl?

It's in your hands.

I'd blame it on not getting proper home training. Maybe.

Laveda:

I'd blame it on not getting proper home training. Maybe.

Still, who deserve sympathy, 10 or 25? Don't evade. Lol.

SalomonKane:
Still, who deserve sympathy, 10 or 25? Don't evade. Lol.

The age doesn't really matter, it all has to do with what they going through.

This ten year old girl has a mother, I'm sure she's gotten lotta advice but yet, choose to go astray, its wrong and sad at the same time that at that age they enjoy sex.

The 25 year old lady on the other hand albeit, she knew from the start that at one point things might go wrong yet she decided to do shii with a camera on her head, now that makes her stupid, but I still ask, do we kill her cause of her desperation She's been through a whole lot, reason I pity her..

They all deserve sympathy.

Guess Calabar girls started knacking from deir moda's womb.