2019
DOI: 10.1002/ijgo.13015
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Sexual and reproductive rights violations at sexual debut of male and female adolescents in Ghana

Abstract: ObjectiveTo examine the social and ethical challenges in enforcing sexual and reproductive rights of male and female adolescents abused at sexual debut in Ghana.MethodologyThis was a secondary analysis of cross‐sectional survey data on 278 sexually experienced male and female teenagers from 12 communities selected by cluster random sampling in the Ejisu‐Juben district. We extracted relevant data from a 2009 academic thesis project involving 481 respondents. We assessed differences between sexual debut experien… Show more

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“…Every day, many women, including adolescents within varied jurisdictions of the world are saddled with taking the right decision in safely resolving unwanted pregnancies that often result from violations of their reproductive rights [1]. Although abortion choice is influenced by a woman's socio-legal setting and resources, access to quality care is inadequate in many countries due to the negative undercurrents of induced abortion [2], leading to over 25 million unsafe abortions with about 31,000 deaths of This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Every day, many women, including adolescents within varied jurisdictions of the world are saddled with taking the right decision in safely resolving unwanted pregnancies that often result from violations of their reproductive rights [1]. Although abortion choice is influenced by a woman's socio-legal setting and resources, access to quality care is inadequate in many countries due to the negative undercurrents of induced abortion [2], leading to over 25 million unsafe abortions with about 31,000 deaths of This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Every day, many women including adolescents within varied jurisdictions of the world are saddled with taking the right decision in safely resolving unwanted pregnancies that often result from the violations of their reproductive rights. 1 Although, abortion choice is a very personal decision of a woman, it often in uenced by her socio-legal setting and locally available resources for optimizing reproductive health and rights. 2 Considering widespread negative undercurrents of induced abortion with little purposeful concern about enhancing the health of women, access to quality abortion care remains inadequate in many countries.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%