Legal and policy framework: Modify laws and policies to enable adolescents to carry and care for their babies without compromising their education or work opportunities; Modify adoption laws to facilitate the adoption of newly born babies of adolescents; Discourage the sale of tobacco and alcohol to adolescents.
• Health Care Systems: Special approaches or modes of care are necessary to address the social and cultural context of adolescent pregnancy; Very young adolescents aged 15 years or less need to be cared for specially.
• Non-health formal and informal: sectors (including education, social welfare, culture, media, religion, labour, political parties, private development agencies, and various civil society) Adolescent pregnancy is a societal responsibility, requiring a multi-sectoral, collaborative approach; The link between adolescent pregnancy and poverty needs to be recognized; Pregnancy in adolescence should be recognized as a male and female issue; Pregnant adolescents need protection from discrimination and abuse; Protective and supportive interventions from non-health institutions and services should be targeted at pregnant adolescents.