Association between sexual violence and unintended pregnancy among adolescent girls and young women in South Africa.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Unintended pregnancy has dire consequences on the health and socioeconomic wellbeing of adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) (aged 15-24 years). While most studies tend to focus on lack of access to contraceptive information and services, and poverty as the main contributing factor to early-unintended pregnancies, the influence of sexual violence has received limited attention. Understanding the link between sexual violence and unintended pregnancy is critical towards developing a multifaceted intervention to reduce unintended pregnancies among AGYW in South Africa, a country with high teenage pregnancy rate. Thus, we estimated the magnitude of unintended pregnancy among AGYW and also examined the effect of sexual violence on unintended pregnancy.

Methods

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SUBMITTER: Ajayi AI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7487533 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature