The news that she wasn’t pregnant came as a relief to 17-year-old Deiglis, already the mother to a five-month-old baby. She wasn’t planning to have another child, but like most people in Venezuela, she can’t afford contraception. Teenage pregnancies are an increasing issue in poor rural communities such as Vidono, Deiglis’s home, where there’s a lack of sexual and reproductive education and even less public promotion of contraception methods. Full Text -> Frace24

Affordable birth control has disappeared in Venezuela, leading many women to unplanned pregnancies at a time when they can barely feed the children they already have. By Julie Turkewitz, IsayenHerrera. Full Text -> SBSNews