Table 2.

Potential opportunities to strengthen South Africa's National Contraception and Fertility Planning Policy and Service Delivery Guidelines and National Contraception Clinical Guidelines

Programme planning and management

Identify and accommodate adolescents who are part of disadvantaged and marginalized populations (e.g., LGBTI, ethnic minorities, displaced populations)

Address adolescents in outreach programs

Involve adolescents in selected aspects of planning, implementation, and evaluation

Continually assess adolescent-friendliness of health workers and health systems

Contraception provision

Call for provision of contraception to adolescents in antenatal, postpartum, and abortion care

Call for provision of contraception without consent of romantic partners or spouses

Identify and address barriers to adolescents following up for side effects and complications of contraception

Support providers to ensure that adolescents of all ages make well-informed decisions

LGBTI = lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/transsexual, intersex.