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(New York, C-Fam<\/a>) \u2014 The World Health Organization (WHO) released a\u00a0new guideline<\/a>\u00a0on preventing adolescent pregnancies in low and middle-income countries. The proposed framework advances a vision of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) for young people that promotes controversial ideas, and norm changes inconsistent with what governments have agreed to.<\/p>\n

Revised for the first time in over a decade, the guideline focuses almost exclusively on preventing adolescent pregnancies through increased and prolonged contraception use, including \u201cself-administered injectable contraception,\u201d and access to sexuality education.<\/p>\n

In its recommendations, the WHO frames adolescents\u2019 choice to discontinue \u201ccontraceptive use due to side-effects, and due to changing life circumstances and reproductive intentions\u201d in a negative light and as an obstacle to overcome.<\/p>\n

The framework calls on mobilizing \u201c[p]olitical, governmental, religious, traditional and other influential leaders\u201d to \u201csupport the access to, uptake of, and continued use of contraceptives.\u201d<\/p>\n

The guideline also asks policymakers to ensure that laws on age and consent related to sexual activities are designed in such a way as to promote adolescents\u2019 access to contraception. Such a move could mean lowering the age of legal consent or making regulations more flexible to enable young people\u2019s access to contraception without stigma.<\/p>\n

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Critics note that an exclusive focus on mass contraceptive use among adolescents monopolizes the discourse on how to best prevent adolescent pregnancies and undermines efforts to tackle the problem holistically.<\/p>\n

The 112-page guideline does not mention the merits of raising awareness about the negative consequences of nonmarital sexual behavior through programs centered around abstinence and delay of sexual debut.<\/p>\n

Critics also disagree with the WHO framing adolescents\u2019 opposition to contraceptives due to side effects or religious beliefs as based on myths and misinformation.<\/p>\n

Beyond its recommendations on contraceptives, the guideline promotes adolescents\u2019 access to sex education, saying that \u201c[m]any adolescents are unaware\u2026[on how] to …<\/p>\n

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Editor\u2019s Note:\u00a0Rebecca Oas, Ph.D.<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Iulia-Elena Cazan<\/a><\/em>\u00a0write for C-Fam. This\u00a0article<\/a>\u00a0first appeared in the Friday Fax, an internet report published weekly by\u00a0C-Fam<\/a>\u00a0(Center for Family & Human Rights), a New York and Washington DC-based research institute. This article appears with permission.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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