POLICY FRAMEWORK to prevent teenage pregnancy and its consequences

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Teenage pregnancy in Romania is a complex social phenomenon, and the public institutions are not yet ready to tackle it effectively. Consequently, Romania persistently ranks high in the European statistics on teenage births, and the issue is perpetuated in a vicious circle closely intertwined with poverty, with significant social and individual costs.

Given its high complexity, the issue cannot be successfully tackled by only one sector (healthcare, welfare or education), but it requires a creative, proactive, multisectoral approach, a truly beneficiary-centred culture.

The policy framework to prevent teenage pregnancy and its consequences intends to set out the necessary interventions which should be implemented at local and county levels, to contain this phenomenon.