Unwanted pregnancy among adolescents is a global issue in urban and rural areas around the world. There are many factors that influence incident of unwanted pregnancy. This study intends to identify social environmental cause pregnancies adolescents. A qualitative research design was employed gain mothers’ adolescents’ perspectives on their experiences Semi-structured interviews with five Malay...

Data on unintended pregnancy are scarce in Japan. The purpose of this study is to examine the association of sociodemographic, reproductive, and other health behavioral factors with unintended pregnancy. A survey was conducted from May through November 1999 in Yamagata, Japan. We distributed anonymous self-administered questionnaires to cervical and breast cancer screening participants aged 35-...

BACKGROUND Adolescent pregnancy has been persistently high in sub-Saharan Africa. The objective of this review is to identify factors influencing adolescent pregnancies in sub-Saharan Africa in order to design appropriate intervention program. METHODS A search in MEDLINE, Scopus, Web of science, and Google Scholar databases with the following keywords: determinants, factors, reasons, sociocul...

International Family Planning Perspectives Complications from spontaneous abortions and unsafely induced abortions pose a serious global threat to women’s health and lives. An estimated 46 million induced abortions are performed annually;1 about 20 million are unsafe, and 95% of these take place in the developing world.2 Unsafe abortion accounts for an estimated 13% of pregnancyrelated deaths3—...

BACKGROUND In settings where sexually transmitted infection (STI) and HIV prevalence is high, the postpartum period is a time of increased biological susceptibility to pregnancy related sepsis. Enabling women living with HIV to avoid unintended pregnancies during the postpartum period can reduce vertical transmission and maternal mortality associated with HIV infection. We describe family plann...

War rape is a phenomenon that occurs in almost every armed conflict. The circle of victims includes not only the persons directly affected by this crime, but also their next kin. Unwanted pregnancies as result wartime children who, from moment they are born, treated inferior persons. Apart marginal cases, internal laws individual states do grant them any protection or compensation. For some tim...

Research has consistently shown that high rates of abortion reflect high levels of unintended pregnancy, and that is certainly the case in Nigeria. Of the estimated 6.8 million pregnancies that occur annually in Nigeria, one in five are unplanned, and half of these end in an induced abortion (Figure 1, page 2). This issue brief highlights the latest scientific evidence on the causes and consequ...