Family Planning for Married Adolescent Girls

This brief focuses on the following points:

Married adolescent girls are highly vulnerable, yet health care providers and then community often ignore their needs.
Avoiding early childbearing is crucial to preventing maternal and infant mortality. Addressing the high unmet need for family planning in this group is a key strategy.
Programs need to lower the many hurdles these girls face in using a family planning method and to ensure good access and quality.

File:

English (152.74k)

Spanish (46.97k)

Length:

2 p

Year:

2006

Organization:

INFO Project at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs

Languages:

English

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