During the national dialogue on sexual and gender-based violence in a COVID-19 pandemic: Prevalence, drivers and response measures conference held by the STAR-Ghana Foundation, a rapid assessment study by Bashiratu Kamal, a gender and labour expert shared that Indomie is one of the causes of the skyrocketing number of teenage pregnancies in Ghana.

Due to the levels of poverty in Ghana, especially now during the Covid-19 pandemic, young girls are being pushed into transactional intercourse in which men would promise them items in return.