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Restricting abortion access has negative effects on parents, as well as children and families, including increased poverty, unemployment, pregnancy-related deaths and higher health risks in children.
Mobile health or mHealth is an appealing way to reach adolescents because it offers opportunities to deliver and monitor health interventions at a much lower cost.
Despite the high incidence of adolescent pregnancy and the risks it poses, there isn’t much data on maternal mental health in this age group in sub-Saharan Africa.
Parents have the primary role of educating their children about their sexuality. But cultural beliefs and taboos about sex can work strongly against their efforts.
Adolescents and young adults who reported having experienced sexual violence were more likely to have also had an unintended pregnancy.
COVID-19 is not only disrupting services for people with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) and their families, but may also be linked to an increase in rates due to an uptick in alcohol use.
When does supporting women who use drugs so they can avoid unplanned pregnancies turn into something more coercive?
Students in Nigeria used home remedies to prevent pregnancy after sex and had doubts about the efficacy of medically approved pills.
Women should not be blamed for getting pregnant accidentally, because factors outside their control are frequently at play.
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Associate research scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Finkel Professor of Global Health, Monash University
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Senior Research Fellow, Global and Women's Health, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University
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Senior Research Fellow, Jean Hailes Research Unit, School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Monash University
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Senior Research Fellow, Deakin University
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Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Calgary
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Postdoctoral fellow, University of the Western Cape
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Professor of Substance Use and Inclusion Health, University of Stirling
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Lecturer, University of Nigeria
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Professor of Women's Public Health, Institute of Clinical and Applied Health Research, University of Hull
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Senior lecturer and research fellow in psychology, Deakin University
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Policy research officer, African Population and Health Research Center
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Lecturer in Criminology, University of Stirling
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Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Manitoba
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Adjunct Professor, Psychology, Laurentian University
