An absence of boarding facilities for high school pupils in the Zambia's northern province of Luapula is forcing children to share lodgings with their peers - unsupervised by adults - leading to teeneage pregnancies and HIV/AIDS infections. The Mabumba High School enrolls some of its 690 students from as far away as the capital Lusaka and about 500 of the students are responsible for their own accomodation arrangements.
Zambian law classifies having sex with anyone under the age of 16 as defilement, and is punishable by a prison term of up to 25 years.
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