What are the main challenges in facing adolescent pregnancy?

●  The States of the region have made commitments related to sexual and reproductive health in the International Conference on Population and Development (El Cairo, 1994) and ratified them in the World Conference on Women (Beijing, 1995). These commitments include guaranteeing access to quality healthcare services to assure a reduction in mortality and maternal morbidity; the universal access to reproductive health by 2015 is one of the objectives of Millennium Goal 5.
●   Improve administrative registers and statistics on adolescent pregnancy, as well as making pregnancy in the 10-14 year-old age group more visible, as it is often a result of sexual violence.
●   Promote measures to allow adolescents access to information, education and sexual and reproductive health services.
●   Implement comprehensive sexual education policies that include the importance of gender relations and the development of adolescents’ capacity to take informed decisions concerning their sexual and reproductive health.
●   Develop actions differentiating between the measures for the prevention of the first adolescent pregnancy and the policies to address a second adolescent pregnancy.
●   Guarantee the permanence of pregnant adolescents and adolescent mothers in the school system, as well as developing programs that promote the workforce insertion of adolescent and young mothers.