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Whilst the rest of the country is fighting tirelessly against the novel pandemic, COVID-19 - South African women fear for their lives in their homes and in the streets. For women, and gender-nonconforming people, being treated like a second citizen in South Africa and subjected to GBV is not new. Here, youth reporters speak about how COVID-19 is not their only worry.

Stigma leads teenage mothers to report feeling fear, shame, resentment, anger (Yardley 2008) distress and lacking in confidence (Fulford and Ford-Giboe 2004). Whitehead (2001) argues that the stigma of teenage pregnancy leads to a 'social death' for young mothers

The factors contributing to teenage pregnancy included: lack of school fees, lack of parental care, communication and supervision, poverty, peer pressure, non-use of contraceptives, desire for a child, forced marriage, low educational level and need for dowries.

98% of pregnant girls were not in school, and 59% of the pregnancies among girls aged 15-19 years were unintended. 45% of severe abortion complications were also reported among adolescent girls.

A review of the health consequences of adolescent pregnancy indicates that pregnancy in adolescents has a higher mortality rate than ... View Record in ScopusGoogle Scholar ... Steinfels M.O.Ethical and legal issues in teenage pregnancies.

Teen pregnancy is way down. And a study suggests that the reason is increased, and increasingly effective, use of contraceptives. From 2007 to 2013, births to teens age 15 to 19 dropped by 36 percent; pregnancies fell by 25 percent from 2007 to 2011, according to federal data.A