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International Conference on Family Planning 2022
IPPF Americas and the Caribbean Region (IPPF ACRO) was well represented at this year's International Conference on Family Planning in Thailand

27 February 2014
Latin America and the Caribbean has the second highest rate of adolescent pregnancies in the world. Nearly 40% of women become pregnant before the age of twenty, and 1 in 5 births are to adolescent women. Pregnancy is the leading cause of death for women ages 15-44 years old.
