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Adolescent girls carry the blame for early pregnancy, yet the boys and men who got them pregnant remain invisible.
Teachers need help to talk to learners about sexual health topics.
A child protection law is failing the learners it was designed to safeguard.
There’s a clear need for policies that improve healthcare access, reproductive health education, and support systems for young women.
Under South African law, girls have the right to continue their schooling through and after their pregnancies.
Instead of asking, ‘How can teenage pregnancies be prevented?’, the following question should be posed: ‘How can reproductive injustices in relation to young women be reduced?
An increase in the adolescent pregnancy rate strongly suggests challenges with accessing sexual and reproductive healthcare services for this vulnerable age group.
Zimbabwe’s Education Amendment Act of 2020 is a step in the right direction, but more still needs to be done.
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Psychological services for girls who have been abused and traumatised in their marriages would help alleviate and reduce distress.
Over 60% of girls in Ethiopia are married by the age of 18. Many don’t have support in negotiating with their husbands and families to take control of their own fertility.
Tanzania’s government must focus on the drivers of teenage pregnancy, which are entirely overlooked in current punitive policies, instead of expelling and arresting schoolgirls.
There isn’t much space in Zambia’s rural areas for open, judgement-free communication with friends and parents about sexual matters.
When and how teenage girls can consent to contraceptive implants.
Tanzania’s laws about forcing girls to leave school if they’re pregnant are out-dated and miss the point.
We’re wildly off base when it comes to guessing crime rates and other important social matters, because we focus on the negative.
At a time when a new national school curriculum is starting its pilot phase in Kenya, a study shows the massive gaps in sexuality education programmes.
Electronic baby simulators given to schoolgirls as part of a sex education program may make teenage girls more, not less, likely to become pregnant, a new Australian study has found.
The messages that adolescents receive from sexuality education classes are frequently negative. It’s time for the curriculum to become more empowering for learners and teachers.
Teenage pregnancy is a massive problem in Kenya. But for this to change, young women need access to information and education rather than moral lectures.
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Researcher, ODI Global
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Senior Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Professor of Psychology, Rhodes University
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Professor, University of South Africa
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Associate Professor, Principal Research Fellow, The Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
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Chair in Social Sciences and Health and UNESCO Chair on Masculinities and Gender Equality, Queen's University Belfast
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Lecturer in Healthcare Law, Swansea University
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Senior Research Fellow, Jean Hailes Research Unit, School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Monash University
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Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Policy Institute, King's College London
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Lecturer, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queen's University Belfast
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Post doc researcher, Chr. Michelsen Institute
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Principal Research Fellow, ODI Global
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Senior Lecturer, Rhodes University
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Extraordinary Research Fellow: South African Research Chair in Cities, Law and Environmental Sustainability, Faculty of Law, North-West University
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Specialist Scientist, Health Systems, South African Medical Research Council