Teen pregnancy has severe health impacts on girls, with the leading causes of death and disability among Ugandan women 15 to 19 years old being complications of pregnancy, unsafe abortions, and ...

During Sierra Leone’s Ebola crisis, thousands of girls became pregnant, some as young as nine. Communities report that there were increases in rape and in girls offering sex for money or services ...

In a recent study published in JAMA Network Open, researchers examined the risk of early death beyond 12 years of age related to teenage pregnancies and gestational age. Teen pregnancy is a leading ...

The Centers for Disease Control just reported a 44% decline in the teenage birth rate since 1990, the lowest level in almost 70 years. The decline represents an actual decrease in teen pregnancy, not ...

“Cyesis was built to wrap expectant and parenting teens with the support they need most,” says program director Meredith Piazza. Four years ago, Jeanni Castro had big plans. A high-achieving student ...

As a senior in high school, Shy’kemia Lundy didn’t know she was pregnant until two months after having unprotected sex, which would’ve left her with no option to have an abortion in Macon. By 17 years ...

A new study conducted by six students from several high schools in Monrovia reveals an unprecedented rise in teenage ...

Teen pregnancies have declined dramatically in the United States since their peak in the early 1990s, as have the births and abortions that result; in 2008, teen pregnancies reached their lowest level ...

JACKSON, Mississippi (Reuters) - Mississippi will require doctors to collect umbilical cord blood from babies born to some young mothers, under a new law intended to identify statutory rapists and ...

MISSION, Texas With at least six classmates pregnant, including the valedictorian with her second child, it was clear to a few girls at Mission High School that more information was needed on safe sex ...

An estimated 12 million teenage pregnancies are reported globally every year. The good news is that teenage pregnancies have declined in some parts of the world. However, they remain high in South ...

TUNICA, Miss. — During the four years Ashley McKay attended Rosa Fort High School in Tunica, Miss., her sex education consisted mainly of an instructor listing different sexually transmitted diseases.