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Contraception (birth control)
is a regimen of one or more actions, devices, or medications followed in
order to deliberately prevent or reduce the likelihood of a woman
becoming pregnant or giving birth. Therefore contraception is the
utilization of various and sundry surgical procedures, devices,
practices, agents, or drugs with the intention of preventing conception
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| Legal aspects of teenage girls' reproductive health in Tanzania: a look at |
| contraception, abortion and infanticide. |
| Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Women's Research and Documentation Project, |
| Teenage Girls Reproductive Health Study Group, 1992. [2], v, 81, [19] p. |
| The purpose of this study was to determine Tanzanian girls' interactions with the law (i.e., actions for which they |
| were prosecuted or for which they could prosecute others) and how those interactions impacted their lives. |
| Specifically, it focused on the issues of contraception, abortion, and infanticide. The author used a variety of |
| methodologies including: 1) a literature review; 2) a legal review, especially the penal laws related to the author's 3 |
| major topics; 3) a court record review of all cases during the years 1985-90 that involved women between 15 and 19 |
| years old in 4 districts; 4) personal interviews with medical personnel (structured and unstructured questionnaires), |
| law enforcers, community leaders (including UWT officials), Maternal Child Health clinic personnel, the UMATI |
| [Family Planning (FP) Association of Tanzania], and the Ministry of Health's FP wing; and 5) focus group discussions |
| with the police, advocates, and magistrates. The research was conducted in the Kagera and Dar es Salaam |
| regions of Tanzania. The major findings were as follows: 1) FP is often inaccessible for teenage girls who are |
| considered minors; 2) despite the fact that the abortion law allows for termination only to save the life of the woman, |
| abortions-on-request do occur illegally, but safely, in both public and private hospitals; 3) although the majority of |
| safe, but illegal, abortion-seekers are adult women, teenage women are the majority of those who doctors treat for |
| complications of unsafe, illegal abortion; 4) schooling was the major reason given by teenage girls for seeking illegal |
| abortion; 5) parents or boyfriends most often accompanied girls seeking either safe, legal abortion (33% and 50%, |
| respectively) or safe, illegal abortion (68% for both groups); 6) all medical personnel thought it would be cheaper to |
| treat abortion initially than to treat its complications later, and all of them advocated legalizing abortion; and 7) the |
| incidence of infanticide has decreased as the prevalence of illegal abortion has increased. The author concluded |
| that abortion and treatment of aseptic abortion occurs in hospitals and communities even with existing restrictive |
| legislation. However in many cases, to obtain treatment, the woman must reveal the abortionist; often women refuse |
| and die because of unconfessed septic abortions (case studies are included). The author concluded that abortion |
| on demand must be legalized in Tanzania. In addition, she recommended: 1) strengthening FP programs; 2) |
| including information on avoidance of pregnancy and sexually-transmitted diseases, intimacy, relationships, |
| opportunity cost of unwanted pregnancy, responsible parenthood, and socialization of gender roles in family life |
| education programs; 3) emphasizing AIDS education; and 4) providing non-medical, government-subsidized |
| contraceptive methods in schools and other youth centers. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT3T 1546-06) |
| PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Legal aspects of teenage girls' reproductive health in |
| Tanzania: a look at contraception, abortion and infanticide.", is(are) Rwebangira MK. The source of this article is |
| "Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Women's Research and Documentation Project, Teenage Girls Reproductive Health |
| Study Group, 1992. [2], v, 81, [19] p.". This article was published in 1992 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® |
| Document ID: CONT3T 1546-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 11546 |
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