In Burkina Faso, one-third of all pregnancies ends in abortion. According to a study published by the University of Ouagadougou and the Guttmacher Institute, in this country, in 2012 alone, 100 thousand abortions were performed, mostly in unsafe conditions or by untrained health workers. Georges Guiella, a researcher at the University of Ouagadougou, said that clandestine abortions affects mostly teenagers because of their low access to family planning methods. “It is very important to rethink the services of family planning so as to improve the access to contraceptives by this category of teenagers, who are the most vulnerable,” he said.