The report of the agency United Nations Organization (UN) pointed out that the gender and income inequalities are the main factors that affect these early pregnancy rates.
“These inequities increase the rates of child marriage and early unionskeep the teenagers outside of school, restrict their professional aspirations and limit your access to health care and information about safe and consensual sex“, was detailed in the study.
In Argentina, according to data from the Directorate of Health Statistics and Information of the Ministry of Health of the Nationbetween 2019 and 2020, the rate of late adolescent fertility (15 to 19 years old) went from 40.7 to 30.3 births per 1000 adolescent womenwhile the early fertility rate (girls under 15 years old) decreased from 1.1 to 0.7.
In this regard, at the end of last June, the Secretary of Access to Health of the Nation, Sandra Tiradopresented at the IV Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbeanin Chile, the state plan for the reduction of unintentional adolescent pregnancies.
The official detailed the main results of the National Plan for the Prevention of Unintentional Pregnancy in Adolescence (ENIA), which has the support of Unfpa in Argentina.
And he detailed how this initiative contributed to the reduction of the adolescent fertility rate.
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UNFPA Argentina explained in a statement that “seven out of 10 pregnancies in adolescents between 15 and 19 years have not been intentional, while in girls under 15 the number rises to eight out of 10, most as a result of abuse and sexual violence” .
To complete this picture, the Perinatal Information Systemwhich surveys 80% of the country’s public maternities, indicated that 29% of adolescents had a son or daughter for the second or third time before the age of 20.
Mariana Isasi, head of the Unfpa Argentina Office, said that “it is essential to continue investing in the prevention of unintended pregnancy in adolescence because each person who has the possibility to decide on your bodyyour life, not only access your rights, but also the opportunity to achieve your full development at the individual level but also for society as a whole”.
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The world body’s report highlighted that initiatives to keep girls in schooltogether with comprehensive sex education (ESI) and the life skills training “They have been effective in empowering them to make their own decisions.”
“This will help them forge a path out of poverty and into a brighter future, one in which they will choose be mothers only when they decide they are readyable and willing to do so,” highlighted the UNFPA document.
Source: Ambito
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