Beyond policy: perspectives of school health practitioners about providing contraception services to school-going adolescents in South Africa

Our study offers valuable insights into the perspectives of school health practitioners about providing contraception to adolescents. These findings highlight the implications of implementing the Integrated School Health Policy and the Policy on the prevention and management of learner pregnancy in schools. The results of this study could provide valuable insights to policymakers, decision-makers, nurses, and teachers from the Departments of Education and Health. Those insights could enhance the development of school health policies and the implementation of contraception-related programmes for adolescents in secondary schools. This, in turn, would contribute to reducing adolescent pregnancies in South Africa.