Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 authorities programme for split schools for meaning students introduced ii years agone in Sierra Leone is facing critical scrutiny.
Pregnant students were non allowed to sit down inwards the same flat inwards the West African province equally their peers because they are seen equally a bad influence.
In Apr 2015, schools inwards Sierra Leone reopened later on a nine-month pause owing to the Ebola crisis. However, "visibly pregnant" girls were banned from returning to school, for fearfulness of negatively affecting "innocent girls", according to the teaching minister.
The authorities offered them the choice of tending option schools alongside a reduced curriculum.
Now, Amnesty International, the UK-based rights organisation, says denying meaning girls mainstream teaching is a violation of their human rights.
"I am the 1 who should hit upward one's heed whether to become to the option or the mainstream school," said 17-year-old Sarah Bassie, an option schoolhouse student.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 3rd of pregnancies inwards Sierra Leone are teenage pregnancies, according to official data.
"It [the move] doesn't address whatsoever of the rootage causes of teenage pregnancy inwards Sierra Leone," Sabrina Mahtani, an Amnesty International researcher, told Al Jazeera.
"It's non addressing the high rates of sexual violence in addition to abusive relationships that girls run across every day, it's non addressing fact that there's no formal sexual practice teaching inwards schools."
However, Sierra Leone's teaching ministry building says the option schoolhouse programme is working.
Out of 14,500 students who attended those schools, 5,000 convey gone dorsum to mainstream schoolhouse later on giving birth.
The ministry building says that is progress because the girls would convey nearly in all probability dropped out altogether because of the shame associated alongside pregnancy.