The NSW towns where teenage pregnancy is on the rise | Kaubo
Worldwide, adolescent fertility rates dropped from 47 live births per 1000, to 41 between 2011 and 2020.
Higher rates of teenage pregnancy were linked to socio-economic disadvantage, unstable housing, social welfare dependency and intergenerational teenage motherhood.Girls as young as 15 are giving birth at rising rates in rural and regional NSW towns with a critical lack of sex education, access to contraception and healthcare workers to supply them.
Family Planning NSW Chief Executive Ann Brassil said reproductive sexual health services, including contraception and abortion services were sorely lacking in too many rural, regional and remote communities, putting at risk the health, safety and wellbeing of teenagers who become mothers. An ABS report from 2017 found that the national teenage birth rate for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders was more than five times the rate of the general population .
“Given the scarcity of doctors in [non-metropolitan] areas, and we have demonstrated and published peer-reviewed studies that nurses are as capable as doctors at inserting IUDS and implants, there is a great solution to this problem,” she said.
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