Promoting and protecting the sexual and reproductive health and rights of adolescents and young people
World Health Organisation, January 2015 - "A WHO-led Special Supplement to the Journal of Adolescent Health, states that progress for adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights (ASRHR), has been ‘limited and patchy’. The Special Supplement is an analysis on progress made for ASRHR, by the global community, over the past twenty years since the landmark International Conference on Population and Development in 1994.
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Through five different papers, the authors set out the implications of this analysis, for both research and for action. The authors define five complementary and intersecting areas for intervention, to best promote and protect ASRHR. The Special Supplement stresses the key importance of addressing gendered inequities, to improve the health and promote the rights of all adolescents and young people. The authors note for example, that comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) programmes which tackle harmful gender norms, power imbalances, traditions and practices, are more likely to reduce unwanted pregnancies and rates of infection by HIV." (January 2015,Volume 56, Issue 1 , Supplement, S1-S6) |