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In Rwanda, although the prevalence of teen pregnancies is lower than in the neighbouring countries Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya , its rate has been steadily increasing over the last fifteen years.
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So far, they have reached young mothers and they are planning to reach out to over a hundred more. Trauma, rejection, fear and school dropout. These are the biggest risks pregnant girls in the Rwanda face today.
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Rwandan girls
The rate of teenage pregnancy remains unacceptably high in most developing countries. In Rwanda, studies show a rapid increase over the past two decades despite the political achievements of women's empowerment, and efforts to curtail child sexual abuse. Unfortunately, the current knowledge of the household determinants of teenage pregnancies in Rwanda is limited, as recent studies have focused on providing s with little analysis of proximate causal factors or focused on the individual determinants.
The study uses secondary data from the recent Rwanda Demographic and Health Survey RDHS: — to analyse household factors associated with teenage pregnancies in Rwanda.
In addition to descriptive analysis, we ran logistic regression models to determine the level of association between teenage pregnancy and household socioeconomic characteristics. Teen girls from small households are more likely to get pregnant than those from large families, while financial, social and educational empowerment of parents, and harmonious household contexts contribute to lessening the cases of teenage pregnancy.
New data shows drop in teenage pregnancy
It indicates that social and economic support to teen girls which include parental supervision, guidance, and financial care are essential aspects to consider in order to reduce teenage pregnancy rates. The study suggests that in addition to efforts directed to teens themselves, strategies for reducing teen pregnancies should focus on a range of household-level contexts that form two broad : empowering parents and maintaining parents' harmonious decisions on teen girls.
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Under a Creative Commons. Abstract The rate of teenage pregnancy remains unacceptably high in most developing countries. Keywords Sociology.
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