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MATERNAL DEATH
Effect 1: Unsafe abortion Effect 2: Health Complications Effect 3: School drop-out/truancy Effect 4: Gender-based violence
Due to fear of parents, stigma, Teen mothers develop After getting pregnant, many girls This is possible in communities
and unpreparedness, teens psychological problems, and often want to stop growing to and religions with stringent
often want to abort their children develop mental school to focus on raising the rules on premarital affairs and
pregnancies in private and physical complications child evident in Africa. shun premarital pregnancies.
facilities
Problem Statement: High incidence of teenage unwanted pregnancies
Cause 1: Unprotected Intercourse Cause 2: Poverty Cause 3: Sexual Abuse
Girls in families facing challenges with >120 million <20 years’ girls have
means to afford basic needs often experienced forced sexual contact
engage in sexual activities to get money
Cause 1.b: Inaccessible Cause 2.a: Inability to fend Cause 3.a: Gender inequalities
Cause 1.a: Pressure to
contraceptives oneself due to dire need for
bear children
money
Right Cause 3.b: Poor peer relations
Girls are under contraceptives
pressure to marry are not easily for Cause 2.a: Thought of
and bear teenage girls
children. Global
receiving government support
for teen mothers Cause 3.c: Lack of sexual education
child brides stand
at over 650
Cause 1. b1: Lack of resources
to buy contraceptives
Cause 1. b2: Lack of
knowledge of where to access
Cause 1. b3: Stigma, side-
effects, changed circumstances
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