Teen pregnancy
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May 7th 2013 | Tags: Family planning and reproductive health, Teen pregnancy
UK – local sexual health guidance
Public health will become the responsibility of local government when it transfers from the NHS to local authorities in April 2013. This briefing for councillors and officers explains the challenges... -
May 2nd 2013
UK sex education still patchy
More than a third of schools in England are failing to provide pupils with age-appropriate sex-and-relationships education, the schools watchdog says. Ofsted inspectors warn this could leave them vulnerable to sexual... -
April 21st 2013
Ecuador: Right to emergency contraception
The government of Ecuador is determined to curb the growing number of teen pregnancies, and has begun to knock down barriers that stand in the way of the right to... -
April 12th 2013
School leaving age and teen pregnancy
Raising the compulsory school leaving age later this year will significantly reduce the country's teenage pregnancy rate, currently one of the highest in Europe, according to research. The number of teenage... -
April 11th 2013
UK: Act to keep sex ed real
The UK Government's proposed science curriculum threatens to water down existing sex education, not strengthen it. This is the only sex education in primary school. Vital information about the body... -
April 11th 2013
UK child well-being improves
The well-being of British children has improved in a number of areas in recent years but they still lag behind many of their European neighbours, Unicef says. The charity ranks the... -
April 7th 2013
US: Judge rules on morning-after pill
A federal judge in Brooklyn, New York, has ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to make the morning-after birth control pill available to people of any age without a... -
March 28th 2013
The need for sex education (press release)
Population Matters regrets the government’s decision not to make Sex and Relationships Education a statutory requirement for British schools. The government has taken insufficient account of Britain’s high rate of abortions... -
November 15th 2012
Family planning “development priority”
Access to family planning is a human right and a sound economic investment at a time when the number of young people in developing countries has reached an all-time high,... -
November 14th 2012
Manila hospital awaits RH bill’s fate
In the main ward at Dr Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital, 171 women and nearly as many newborns share fewer than 100 beds. Dozens more expectant mothers line the street outside,...
