Family planning perspectives and practices of married adolescent girls in rural Upper Egypt.

Mirette M AzizOmaima ElgibalyHeba M Mohammed

Published in: The European journal of contraception & reproductive health care : the official journal of the European Society of Contraception (2021)

Married adolescent girls' current use and ever use of modern contraception were very low in rural Upper Egypt. Changing the social norms to create the desire to delay first childbirth, improving adolescent girls' reproductive health knowledge, correcting myths about contraception and building girls' agency to use contraception may increase their contraceptive use.

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