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Teen Pregnancies may be Reduced by Combining Health, Contraceptive Education
Unintended pregnancy among adolescents is a common global problem. According to the review, in the United States, 9 percent of adolescents between 15 and 19 years old become pregnant each year. India has even higher rates, where 19 percent of pregnancies are among adolescents.
"Adolescents who have an unintended pregnancy face a number of challenges, including abandonment by their partners, inability to complete school education and increased adverse pregnancy outcomes," wrote review authors led by Chioma Oringanje of the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital in Nigeria.
The aim of the new review was to evaluate whether pregnancy prevention interventions have an effect on the rate of unintended pregnancies among adolescents.
The review appears in the current issue of The Cochrane Library, a publication of The Cochrane Collaboration, an international organization that evaluates research in all aspects of health care. Systematic reviews draw evidence-based conclusions about medical practice after considering both the content and quality of existing trials on a topic.
Oringanje and fellow Cochrane reviewers evaluated 41 studies involving 95,662 ethnically diverse boys and girls, most between 9 to 19 years old. The studies took place in developed countries predominantly, including the United States, Canada, Italy and England.
Most adolescents received their interventions in school, and the rest took place in hospitals or family planning clinics. The interventions occurred in various formats, such as health education or counseling only, health education plus skills building and health education plus contraception education.
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"Comprehensive sexuality education that promotes abstinence while acknowledging that many teens will be sexually active...why do studies show that over half of all teens are not sexually active? Why still acknowledge that many will be sexually active, when most are choosing not to be??? |
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This really sounds like a pushing for an agenda kind of thing. Like media pushes there agenda to try and convince people of what is not true.