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It sounds obvious. Pregnancies could be avoided by using contraception. But 15 million unwanted

pregnancies could be avoided annually in 35 low and middle-income countries if women did, in fact,

use modern contraception. That's according to a study in the journal Human

Reproduction. Unwanted pregnancy has a wide range of serious consequences. Women may have to

stop their education or employment. They might pursue unsafe abortions, and they can face disability,

disease, and death as a result of the pregnancy. To determine barriers to the use of contraception,

researchers compared surveys and interviews of nearly 13,000 women who became pregnant

unintentionally. They compared the data to that from more than 100,000 women who were sexually

active and did not want to be pregnant. For women who were sexually active, did not want to be

pregnant but did not use contraception,

37% feared health side effects from contraception. 22% said they or their partner objected.

These issues outweighed cost or availability. Women also underestimated the risks of getting

pregnant from unprotected sex. The World Health Organization's Howard Sobel is one of the

authors of the study.

In a press release, he says the research shows

that health workers need to play a bigger role

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