Criminalizing Teen Pregnancy
A Look at Tanzania’s Teen-Pregnancy Policies
6 min readDec 21, 2020
About a year ago, I found myself standing in front of about a hundred Tanzanian secondary-school girls. Ranging from ages 12 to 19, I gathered these girls to discuss menstrual health and hygiene. I’d been living in the village of Mvaa for almost a year working with the Peace Corps, and I’d spent the first few months narrowing my focus for…
