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The goal of the qualitative sociological study is to explore and identify the key factors and behavioral patterns that lead to adolescent pregnancy, thus helping to identify the necessary interventions to prevent them. The study was based on 5 focus groups (2 with adolescents and 3 with specialists) and 68 in-depth interviews with young girls with pregnancy experience under age of 18 years, with the male partners of the young girls, the parents of adolescents and adolescents with pregnancy experience at age under 18 years old, specialists who had experience in teenage pregnancies in the past 3 years. For the collection of data, an interview guide adapted to each category of respondents was used. Data collection took place between December 2018 and March 2019.

Thousands of young people reached with information about their reproductive health and rights; unique data about the attitudes of women to cervical cancer prevention launched;  the first ever "Gender and Generations Programme" in Moldova funded and launched by the Government; new partnerships with private sector and vocational schools to empower young people established. These are just few milestones reached by UNFPA Moldova in 2018, in partnership with Government, development partners, civil society, local authorities and communities. 

The survey was conducted under the auspices of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Social Protection, with the support of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) under the ‘Cervical Cancer Prevention in the Republic of Moldova’ Project, and does not necessarily represent the UNFPA or SDC view, or of any other of its affiliated organisations.

The assessment of capacity building needs of NGOs working with key populations and healthcare providers in Moldova was conducted under the coordination of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Social Protection, in the framework of Joint UN Plan on AIDS, based on the UBRAF Funds, in the framework of the partnership between UNAIDS, UNFPA and UNFPA Implementing Partner, Center for Health Policies and Studies (PAS Center).