Teen pregnancy in Mexico: an unsolved problem of inequity that will not be solved with a single strategy

Abstract

Since 2005, Mexico ranks first among the oecd countries with the highest number of teenage births: 65.8 out of 1000 –many of them unwanted or unplanned–, which has been recognized as a public health problem. This implies that it has been taken up as a human rights issue due to the difficulty in incorporating sexual and reproductive rights, especially of children and ado­ lescents. This paper seeks to address that issue, focusing on barriers that prevent the full exercise of their rights in order to contribute to an approach that aims at integrality and that understand inequality as the basis of a problem that constitutes a human rights violation that the State is obliged to resolve.