Western Bahr El Ghazal Health Ministry’s Family Planning Officer said the state is recording a high number of contraceptives reaching about two thousand every month being use mostly by teenage girls and married couples to minimize pregnancy.
Mariana Aristo said many girls come to their centres to take implants, condoms and pills which have adverse effect on women, Voice of Hope reported.
She argued that the use of contraceptives among school going girls and boys helps them avoid early pregnancy and continue with studies.
Reacting to the report, Wau Catholic Diocesan priest Santino Maurino Morokomomo denounced the use of contraceptives, saying they are against the will of God and is a crime because they make teenage girls vulnerable.
He said completing studies was self-determination and could not be influenced by drugs or artificial methods.
Fr Maurino explained that limited faith in God prompts teenagers to irresponsible sexual pleasure.
He called on state authorities to advise teenagers on the right path of live instead of encouraging them to dangerous practices.
Western Bahr El Ghazal is one of the states in South Sudan with the high number of people living with HIV AIDS.