Author: Anna-Maria van Niekerk, Linda Pretorius and Laura Grant

High teen pregnancy rates hinder development as many girls drop out of school, later struggle to find a job and stay poor. Nearly 365 teenage girls give birth in South Africa every day, with 10 of those daily births to moms younger than 15. High teen pregnancy rates hinder development as many girls drop out of school, later struggle to find a job and stay poor – a difficult cycle to break. Can better sex education, easier access to contraceptives, and training health workers make a difference? December holidays started badly for Ainsley Robinson*, at 14, she found herself pregnant.…