As Youth Month is celebrated across South Africa, a professional nurse in Duduza highlights the urgent and growing crisis of teenage pregnancy and the collective action needed to address it.

South Africa's teenage pregnancy rate has jumped 60% amid the COVID-19 pandemic, an increase affecting the education of many young women and their hopes to escape the cycle of poverty.

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Teenage pregnancies in South Africa have reached alarming rates. Out of more than 122,000 teenagers who gave birth in the past year, 2,716 were girls between the ages of 10 and 14.

“Although the teen pregnancy situation in the East and Southern Africa region is slightly better than the sub-Saharan Average [SSA] average … still close to 3.5 million, over half of all ...

“Addressing teenage pregnancy in South Africa required a multi-faceted approach focusing on education, health care and ...

Pregnancies among adolescent girls remain . An estimated 21 million girls aged 15–19 years in developing countries become pregnant and about 12 ...

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MINISTER of international relations and cooperation of the Republic of South Africa Dr Grace Naledi Mandisa Pandor has argued that more must be done to confront the issue of teenage pregnancy.

The United States has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the Western world (Holcombe, Peterson & Manlove, 2009), and most of these pregnancies are unintentional (Thomas, 2012). Teen mothers are ...