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Adolescent contraception

Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa

• Contraception and Reproductive Medicine
  • Describing the roles of civil society organizations in sustaining adolescents' family planning programs in nine Asian and African countries [2025]

Australia

• Australian Journal of General Practice
  • Contraception options during pubertal transition: Risks, benefits and considerations [2024]

Benin

• BMJ Open
  • Modern contraceptive use among adolescent girls and young women in Benin: a mixed-methods study [2022]

Brazil

• Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
  • Youth, gender and reproductive justice: health inequities in family planning in Brazil’s Unified Health System [2021]

Canada

• Canadian Paediatric Society
  • Universal access to no-cost contraception for youth in Canada [2019]
  • Contraceptive care for Canadian youth [2018]

• PLoS ONE
  • Newcomer youth's access to contraception care in Canada: A scoping review of qualitative evidence [2025]

Democratic Republic of the Congo

• BMC Women's Health
  • Determinants of the use of contraceptive methods by adolescents in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: results of a cross-sectional survey [2022]

• Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
  • A retrospective analysis of the trends in modern contraceptive use among adolescents and young women (15-24 years) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the last two decades [2023]

East Africa

• Reproductive Health
  • Pathways to increased coverage: an analysis of time trends in contraceptive need and use among adolescents and young women in Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda [2017]

Ethiopia

• BioMed Research International
  • Adolescents' Contraceptive Uptake in Ethiopia: A Meta-Analysis [2022]

• Contraception and Reproductive Medicine
  • Unmet need for family planning and associated factors among adolescent girls and young women in Ethiopia: a multilevel analysis of Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey [2023]

• Reproductive Health
  • Contraceptive use among sexually active female adolescents in Ethiopia: trends and determinants from national demographic and health surveys [2021]

Ghana

• BMC Women's Health
  • Prevalence and correlates of contraceptive use among female adolescents in Ghana [2015]

• SSM - Population Health
  • Trends and determinants of contraceptive use among female adolescents in Ghana: Analysis of 2003–2014 Demographic and Health Surveys [2020]

High-income countries

• International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
  • Barriers to contraception access and use among youth: A scoping review in high-income countries [2026]

India

• Reproductive Health
  • Contraception for married adolescents (15-19 years) in India: insights from the National Family Health Survey-4 (NFHS-4) [2022]

International

• Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & Gynaecology
  • Improving access to and use of contraception by adolescents: What progress has been made, what lessons have been learnt, and what are the implications for action? [2020]

• BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health
  • Use of contraceptives, empowerment and agency of adolescent girls and young women: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2024]

• Contraception
  • Contraceptive values and preferences of adolescents and young adults: A systematic review [2022]

• Fertility and Sterility
  • Awareness, knowledge, and misconceptions of adolescents and young people regarding long-acting reversible contraceptives: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]

• Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • Research Review: Are sampling biases masking long-term effects of hormonal contraceptive use in adolescence on risk for depression? [2025]

• Journal of Clinical Research in Pediatric Endocrinology
  • Contraception for Adolescents [2020]

• PLoS ONE
  • Contraceptive use and needs among adolescent women aged 15–19: Regional and global estimates and projections from 1990 to 2030 from a Bayesian hierarchical modelling study [2021]

• Reproductive Health
  • A never-before opportunity to strengthen investment and action on adolescent contraception, and what we must do to make full use of it [2017]

• Save the Children International
  • Global Learning Agenda on Adolescent Contraception Access and Choice 2025 [2025]

• Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
  • Pharmacies: an important source of contraception for some adolescents, but not a panacea for all [2023]

Israel

• Israel Medical Association Journal
  • Improving contraceptive care for minors in Israel: practice, policy, and training gaps among OBGYNs [2024]

Jordan

• Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal
  • Landscape analysis of family planning research, programmes and policies targeting young people in Jordan: stakeholder assessment and systematic review [2020]

Kenya, Uganda

• Reproductive Health
  • A comparative human rights analysis of laws and policies for adolescent contraception in Uganda and Kenya [2022]

Low and middle income countries

• BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health
  • Potentials and pitfalls of including pharmacies as youth-friendly contraception providers in low- and middle-income countries [2020]

• Contraception
  • Interventions to improve adolescents' contraceptive behaviors in low- and middle-income countries: a review of the evidence base [2014]

• Frontiers in Global Women's Health
  • Trends in contraceptive method mix among adolescents and youth aged 15-24 in low- and middle-income countries [2023]

• Frontiers in Public Health
  • What are the sources of contraceptives for married and unmarried adolescents: Health services or friends? Analysis of 59 low- and middle-income countries [2023]

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Which Structural Interventions for Adolescent Contraceptive Use Have Been Evaluated in Low- and Middle-Income Countries? [2022]
  • Structural Interventions to Enable Adolescent Contraceptive Use in LMICs: A Mid-Range Theory to Support Intervention Development and Evaluation [2022]

• JAMA Network Open
  • Contraceptive Use in Adolescent Girls and Adult Women in Low- and Middle-Income Countries [2020]

• Journal of Global Health
  • The impact of underuse of modern methods of contraception among adolescents with unintended pregnancies in 12 low- and middle-income countries [2019]

• PLOS Global Public Health
  • Can cash transfer interventions increase contraceptive use and reduce adolescent birth and pregnancy in low and middle income countries? A systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]

• Reproductive Health
  • Contraception for adolescents in low and middle income countries: needs, barriers, and access [2014]

Malawi

• Malawi Medical Journal
  • Quality of facility-based family planning services for adolescents in Malawi: Findings from a national census of health facilities [2016]

Mali

• Demographic and Health Surveys
  • Modern Contraceptive Use among Youth in Mali [2020]

Mexico

• International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
  • Comparison of family-planning service quality reported by adolescents and young adult women in Mexico [2016]

• Journal of Religion and Health
  • Factors Associated with Support for Adolescent Access to Contraception Among Mexican Catholic Parents [2021]

• Maternal and Child Health Journal
  • Adolescents and Long-Acting Reversible Contraception: Lessons from Mexico [2016]

Niger

• Reproductive Health
  • Contraceptive decision-making and its association with contraceptive use among married adolescent girls in Niger [2025]

Nigeria

• African Health Sciences
  • Discontinuation of contraceptives among adolescent girls aged 15-19 years in Nigeria: a descriptive analysis [2022]

• Global Health: Science and Practice
  • Improving Contraceptive Service Quality and Accessibility for Adolescents and Youth Through Proprietary Patent Medicine Vendors in Four Nigerian States [2024]

Norway

• BMC Public Health
  • Use of contraception during first sexual intercourse among Norwegian adolescents: a national cross-sectional study [2024]

Republic of Guinea

• BMC Public Health
  • Trends in contraceptive use, unmet need and associated factors of modern contraceptive use among urban adolescents and young women in Guinea [2020]

Republic of Korea

• Obstetrics & Gynecology Science
  • Recent trends in contraceptive use among Korean adolescents: Results from a nationwide survey from year 2013 to 2015 [2016]

Rwanda

• BMC Women's Health
  • Utilisation of modern contraceptives by sexually active adolescent girls in Rwanda: a nationwide cross-sectional study [2022]

• Ministry of Health Rwanda
  • National Family Planning and Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (FP/ASRH) Strategic Plan (2018–2024) [2018]

South Africa

• African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine
  • How do South African policies address provision of contraception among adolescents? [2024]

• Journal of Adolescent Health
  • An Analysis of Adolescent Content in South Africa's Contraception Policy Using a Human Rights Framework [2015]

• Journal of Community Systems for Health
  • Provision of contraception to adolescents in primary healthcare clinics in South Africa: Perspectives of healthcare practitioners [2025]

South Asia

• BMC Women's Health
  • Socioeconomic inequalities in contraceptive use among female adolescents in south Asian countries: a decomposition analysis [2022]

Spain

• Reproductive Health
  • Trends in the use of oral contraceptives among adolescents and young women in Spain [2016]

Sub-Saharan Africa

• BMC Public Health
  • The use of condoms and other birth control methods among sexually active school-going adolescents in nine sub-Saharan African countries [2022]

• Contraception and Reproductive Medicine
  • Access to quality contraceptive counselling among adolescent girls and young women in sub-Saharan Africa [2024]

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Mapping Evidence Regarding Decision-Making on Contraceptive Use among Adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Scoping Review [2023]

• Journal of Adolescent Health
  • Who Meets the Contraceptive Needs of Young Women in Sub-Saharan Africa? [2017]

• PLOS Global Public Health
  • Effect and cost-effectiveness of human-centred design-based approaches to increase adolescent uptake of modern contraceptives in Nigeria, Ethiopia and Tanzania: Population-based, quasi-experimental studies [2023]

• PLoS ONE
  • Prevalence and factors associated with contraceptive use among sexually active adolescent girls in 25 sub-Saharan African countries [2024]
  • Predictors of unmet need for contraception among adolescent girls and young women in selected high fertility countries in sub-Saharan Africa: A multilevel mixed effects analysis [2020]

• Reproductive Health
  • Comparing the reasons for contraceptive discontinuation between parenting adolescents and young women in sub-Saharan Africa: a multilevel analysis [2023]
  • Long-acting reversible contraceptives use among adolescent girls and young women in high fertility countries in sub-Saharan Africa [2022]
  • Wealth-related inequalities in demand for family planning satisfied among married and unmarried adolescent girls and young women in sub-Saharan Africa [2021]

Sweden

• BMC Public Health
  • Reimbursement of hormonal contraceptives and the frequency of induced abortion among teenagers in Sweden [2014]

Tanzania

• BMJ Open
  • Trends and factors associated with modern contraceptive use among sexually active female youths in Tanzania, 2004-2022 [2025]

• PLOS Global Public Health
  • Trends and determinants of unmet need for modern contraception among adolescent girls and young women in Tanzania, 2004-2016 [2024]

• Women's Health
  • Modern contraceptive discontinuation and associated factors among adolescent girls and young women in Tanzania: An analysis of a nationally representative data [2025]

Togo

• Frontiers in Public Health
  • Unmet needs for modern contraceptive methods among sexually active adolescents and young women in Togo: a nationwide cross-sectional study [2023]

Uganda

• BMC Women's Health
  • Prevalence and factors associated with modern contraceptives utilization among female adolescents in Uganda [2021]

• npj Women's Health
  • Contraception decision-making autonomy among adolescent girls and young women in Uganda [2025]

• PLoS ONE
  • How have unintended pregnancies and contraceptive use among adolescent girls and young women changed in Uganda? Evidence from the 2014 and 2019 PMA national surveys [2025]

United Kingdom

• College of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare
  • Young People

United States

• Adolescent Health, Medicine and Therapeutics
  • Long-Acting Reversible Contraception for Adolescents: A Review of Practices to Support Better Communication, Counseling, and Adherence [2023]

• American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Contraceptive Counseling and Methods for Adolescents: Clinical Report [2025]
  • Contraception for Adolescents: Policy Statement [2025]
  • Long-Acting Reversible Contraception: Specific Issues for Adolescents [2020]
  • Contraception for Adolescents [2014]
  • The Importance of Access to Contraception

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • Adolescents and Long-Acting Reversible Contraception: Implants and Intrauterine Devices [2018]
  • Counseling Adolescents About Contraception [2017]

• American Journal of Public Health
  • US "Safety Net" Clinics Provide Access to Effective Contraception for Adolescents and Young Women, 2017-2019 [2022]

• Contemporary OB/GYN
  • How to help adolescents choose the right contraceptive [2024]

• Contraception
  • Race-ethnicity and sex disparities in the use of pregnancy prevention methods among U.S. high school students [2025]

• Guttmacher Institute
  • Minors’ Access to Contraceptive Services [2023]
  • Ensuring Adolescents’ Ability to Obtain Confidential Family Planning Services in Title X [2018]

• Open Access Journal of Contraception
  • Teaching About Contraception: Adolescent Attitudes Surrounding Sexual Education [2023]

• PLoS ONE
  • The role of sex education in withdrawal use: Prevalence and correlates among a nationally representative sample of adolescents and young adults [2026]

• Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine
  • Improving Knowledge About, Access to, and Utilization of Long-Acting Reversible Contraception Among Adolescents and Young Adults [2017]

• Women's Health
  • Confidentiality and privacy considerations for adolescents receiving contraceptive health services via telemedicine: A narrative review [2024]

Western countries

• EClinicalMedicine
  • Contraception and abortion information and care in community pharmacy for adolescents: a systematic review [2025]

• Frontiers in Reproductive Health
  • Influence of mental health conditions and symptoms on contraceptive use among adolescent girls and young women: a scoping review [2025]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Contraception within the context of adolescents’ sexual and reproductive lives [2021]
  • Adolescent contraceptive use: glossary of terms [2016]
  • Contraception in adolescence [2004]

Zambia

• BMC Women's Health
  • Rural-urban correlates of modern contraceptives utilization among adolescents in Zambia: a national cross-sectional survey [2022]
  • Patterns, trends, and factors associated with contraceptive use among adolescent girls in Zambia (1996 to 2014): a multilevel analysis [2020]

• Journal of Public Health in Africa
  • Factors contributing to changes in contraceptive use among adolescent girls in Zambia: a decomposition analysis [2023]

Zimbabwe

• BMJ Open
  • Estimating abortion incidence and unintended pregnancy among adolescents in Zimbabwe, 2016: a cross-sectional study [2020]

{Related topics}

• Topic
  • Long-acting reversible contraception
  • Intrauterine device (IUD)
  • Family planning
  • Emergency contraception
  • Barrier contraceptive methods
  • Adolescent sexual and reproductive health
  • Adolescent pregnancy
  • Adolescent health