The article focuses on ways to prevent teenage pregnancy. A report revealed that 1.1 million teenage girls in the U.S. become pregnant every year and that 125,000 American girls aged fifteen and below become pregnant every year. According to...
Teenage Pregnancy Rates Have Gone UP; Advice: A Teenager Is Shown How to Use a Pregnancy Test
Objective: to know the opinion of female adolescents who have become pregnant and were enrolled in a Health Agents Program in Osasco city, So Paulo, Brazil, about strategies used in the public health field in order to reduce teenage pregnancy in the community they live. Methods: descriptive ...
Teenagers are generally more responsible than most parents think when it comes to when and if to have sex, said Bill Albert, spokesman for the nonprofit National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. “Adults, when they think of teen sexual culture, they see little more than a blu...
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“I would like to realize my dream of being a nurse. I want to teach other girls how to prevent pregnancy, and to help my community to fight disease. I feel I should contribute to girls’ education, especially around sexual and reproductive health, and I’m going to classes to learn mo...
Some studies reported on outcomes that may be important but are distal or unrelated to child maltreatment outcomes (such as interpregnancy interval). Conclusions Interventions provided in or referable from primary care did not consistently prevent child maltreatment. No evidence on harms is available. ...
intercourse.10programshelpedsexuallyactiveyouthunprotectedsex.ReducedRatesTeenagePregnancySexuallyTransmittedInfections—Thirteenprogramsshowedstatisticallysignificantdeclinesteenpregnancy,HIVotherSTIs.NinedemonstratedstatisticallysignificantimpactteenagepregnancyamongprogramparticipantsreducedtrendSTIsamongparticipantswhenmeasured...
Should a woman become pregnant with Paragard in place, the device should be removed to prevent possible complications of pregnancy. Removal of an intrauterine device may be sometimes complicated leading to miscarriage or even surgical abortion. IfIUDis not removed, long-term effects to fetus are no...
A Community Health Expert, Prof. Christiana Campbell, says teenage pregnancy could expose the girl-child to devastating reproductive health issues. Campbell, a former National President of the Medical Women Association of Nigeria, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN...