DFID - UK Department for International Development
Adolescent fertility
The risk of dying in pregnancy and childbirth for those aged 15-19 is twice that of those in their twenties. Girls under 15 are five times more likely to die. The decline in the adolescent fertility rate in all developing regions has been very slow.
Despite recent gains in access to contraceptive services, young women’s unmet need for modern family planning services is double that of older women. This unmet need is likely to grow as the world’s adolescents, of whom there are more than ever before, enter their reproductive age.
Visit www.dfid.gov.uk/choiceforwomen and have your say on reproductive, maternal and newborn health.
Photograph: Storyline / Safe Motherhood Programme / Department for International Development
Adolescent fertility
The risk of dying in pregnancy and childbirth for those aged 15-19 is twice that of those in their twenties. Girls under 15 are five times more likely to die. The decline in the adolescent fertility rate in all developing regions has been very slow.
Despite recent gains in access to contraceptive services, young women’s unmet need for modern family planning services is double that of older women. This unmet need is likely to grow as the world’s adolescents, of whom there are more than ever before, enter their reproductive age.
Visit www.dfid.gov.uk/choiceforwomen and have your say on reproductive, maternal and newborn health.
Photograph: Storyline / Safe Motherhood Programme / Department for International Development