To keep or not to keep? Decision making in adolescent pregnancies in Jamestown, Ghana.
BACKGROUND:Jamestown, an urban coastal slum in Accra, Ghana, has here one of the highest adolescent pregnancy rates in the country.We sought to understand the decision (to keep or terminate) factors and experiences surrounding adolescent pregnancies.METHODS:Thirty semi-structured indepth interviews were carried out among adolescents (aged 13-19 yea