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6 February 2008
A multi-million pound drive to improve young people's access to contraception is due to be launched in the hope of bringing down rates of teenage pregnancy. The cash will be spent on initiatives to promote "the full range of methods of contraception", including the Pill, condoms and newer methods such as implants and injections which can prevent pregnancy for between three months and five years.
Some £10 million of the money will go towards encouraging Strategic Health Authorities to come up with innovative ways of promoting contraception, but the Department of Health denied that there was any intention to shift the balance away from the Pill and towards longer-lasting jabs and implants.
The rate of teenage pregnancies in Britain has fallen from the peak years of the late 1990s, it is still the highest in Western Europe and the second highest, after the US, in the world. In 2005, there were 39,804 conceptions by under-18s in England - a rate of 41.3 per thousand.
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