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ANZALDO TABOADA, Miguel Rodrigo; CACERES ZELAYA, Willma  y  CONDORI ACHO, Lourdes Abigaíl. Prevention of adolescent pregnancy in the educational units Eduardo Abaroa and Ipepro. Municipality the Villar. Province Tomina. 2016. Arch.Boliv.Med. [online]. 2016, vol.26, n.94, pp. 7-20. ISSN 0004-0525.

Introduction: It is very important to be able to carry out a thorough recapitulation of health strategies aimed in particular at young people and adolescents, verifying the statistics of past years until the most recent ones, it will be possible to see if the desired expectations were achieved or not, and with this an achievement, modification, implementation or abrogation of them. These are important moments because now young people and adolescents have laws and regulations that protect them and provide them with tuition in the participation for the development of strategic resources aimed at this age group. The objective of this investigation is: To determine the measures of prevention of pregnancy in adolescents from 15 to 19 years old used in the education units Eduardo Abaroa and IPEPRO of El Villar province Tomina in 2016. Material and Methods: This research is quantitative, observational, transversal and descriptive. This paper analyzes the lack of strategy implementation in pregnancy prevention, family planning, sexual and reproductive health directed to adolescents, in the town center of El Villar, especially in education in Sexual and Reproductive Health directed to adolescents in rural areas. Results and Conclusions: Being the disinformation or the lack of socialization of the present topic, a risk factor for adolescent pregnancy, more attention, interest and human resources should be allocated to correct these shortcomings. Health Services should use teachers as a strategy to better inform about the field of sexual and reproductive health.

Palabras llave : Pregnancy in adolescents; education in sexual and reproductive health; knowledge in contraceptive use.