Hospital Escuela Treats 140–170 Teen Pregnancies a Month

Published on Honduras Daily · Aug 3, 2026 · Originally reported August 3, 2026 by HCH

Honduras's Hospital Escuela says it treats 140 to 170 pregnant adolescents each month, about 70% of them from Tegucigalpa, leading health officials to call for stronger prevention, sex education, and support programs.

An auto-translated English version isn’t available for HCH, so this opens the original in Spanish. Honduras Daily curates and summarizes; the reporting is theirs.

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