Train teachers about the biological fertile period during pre service training and in service 

training on holidays and encourage routine teaching of pregnancy prevention, including 

modern contraception in the classroom. Encourage teacher parent dialogue about the 

curriculum related to reproductive health in the schools at PTA meetings in the schools, so 

parents are aware and can reinforce learning.   

Encourage family planning, postnatal care, and abortion providers to promote biological 

understandings of the fertile period and modern methods of birth control. Postnatal care and 

abortion clinic visits are opportunities to reach adolescents and youth with information about 

modern contraception. 

Abortion Education 

Conduct dissemination meetings for health care providers, e.g., hospital, family planning, 

maternal health, abortion, and postabortion providers, regarding the findings of this study of 

adolescent pregnancy and abortion to generate further strategies to reduce the incidence of 

unwanted pregnancy and abortion among adolescents and youth in their communities.  

Since some pregnant girls are more vulnerable than others those without supportive boyfriends 

or those involved in a family conflict over whether or not to have an abortion social service and 

abortion service providers should be informed of these differences and instructed how to assess 

girls' vulnerability and provide support accordingly.   

Development of Public Awareness and Social Support Programs 

Expose the public to the variations in the social dynamics of teenage sexual practices and use of 

abortion in the community. For example, include information on how and where forced sex 

generally occurs so parents, caretakers, and adolescents can be alert to preventing opportunities 

for sexual violence.   

Develop adolescent centers that provide adolescent friendly reproductive health services. Keep 

the scope of the centers broad, beyond reproductive health.  

Strengthen already existing UN and MOH programs to support girls' education.  

Data Collection and Research 

Since there is variability in the process of becoming married and living arrangements during the 

process, characteristics such as  married  versus  unmarried,   broken home,  or  single parent 

family  must be defined and measured carefully according to local practices; they cannot easily 

be measured by asking one question on a survey questionnaire.   

The differences between the findings of this study of adolescent abortion and those of studies 

conducted among other groups, such as street youth or middle class youth, suggest that local 

studies should be implemented to guide program planning and implementation according to local 

practices. 

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