Pregnant teens: girls in South Africa need focused, supportive healthcare and more information about safe sex

By Sathiya Susuman Appunni, Full Professor of Demography, University of the Western Cape
Tronic Sithole, Doctoral Research Fellow in the Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of the Western Cape

An estimated 12 million teenage pregnancies are reported globally every year.

Girls and young women in this age group face multiple risk factors that contribute to early pregnancies. These include a lack of access to comprehensive sexual education, socioeconomic inequality, cultural norms, and…

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