Sexual behavior and contraceptive knowledge and use among adolescents in developing countries.

摘要: This article offers an overview of sexual behavior and contraceptive knowledge use among adolescent women across a large number developing countries. The results demonstrate that almost universally in sub-Saharan Africa the majority countries other regions, gap between age at first intercourse marriage has increased cohorts. predominant pattern is one which both have risen, but increase greater, resulting widening gap. In most Africa, current higher sexually active, unmarried teens than it married teens, whereas Latin America Caribbean, current-use levels are teens. also show adolescents unlikely to time they sex more likely older experience failure.