Impact of a community contraceptive counselling intervention on adolescent fertility rates: a quasi-experimental study

Background From 2000 to 2008, in urban areas in Spain, adolescent fertility and abortion rates underwent unprecedented increases, consecutive to intensive immigration from developing countries. To address unmet needs for contraception information and services, a community-based, gender-sensitive and culturally adapted brief counselling intervention ( SIRIAN program ) was launched in some deprived neighbourhoods with a high proportion of...