REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
Youth

Adolescents, particularly in the developing world, suffer disproportionately from negative reproductive health outcomes. They are vulnerable for both physical and social reasons and often suffer serious long-term consequences. As a group, however, they are often neglected by program efforts and health policy.

Population Council research seeks to provide married and unmarried adolescents with reproductive health knowledge and skills to improve preventive behaviors and improve their health-seeking behavior.

In addition, efforts are made to strengthen the ability of health care providers to provide youth-friendly services and improve provider attitudes toward sexually active adolescents.

Projects

• Bangladesh: Strengthening Safe Sex Decisionmaking: Creating Conditions for Scaling Up Access to Life Skill Sexual and Reproductive Health Education and Condom Services

  Bangladesh: Improving Access to Reproductive Health Information and Condom Services for Male Youth
• Bangladesh: Creating a Space for Men and Youth at Health and Family Welfare Centers
• India: Formation and Experience of Sexual Partnerships  Among Youth in India

• India: Working Group on Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

• India: Youth in India: Situation and Needs Study

• Kenya: Friends of Youth
• Kenya and Zimbabwe: Improving the Reproductive Health of Young People in Kenya and Zimbabwe
• Peru: A Diagnostic Study to Promote Young People’s Healthy Behaviors in Alternative Development Zones of Peru
• Global: Improving Young Adult Reproductive Health
• FRONTIERS projects in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and the Near East, and Latin America and the Caribbean

  • Africa: Sharing Experiences with Comprehensive Responses to Adolescent Reproductive Health Needs in Africa

  • Bangladesh: Improving Adolescent Reproductive Health in Bangladesh

  • Bangladesh: Introducing an Adolescent Reproductive Health Curriculum in Vocational Training Courses

  • Cameroon: Peer Education as a Strategy to Increase Contraceptive Prevalence and Reduce the Rate of STIs/AIDS Among Adolescents in Cameroon

  • Ethiopia: Improving Reproductive Health and HIV Prevention Among Married Adolescents in Amharic, Ethiopia

  • India: Increasing Community Involvement in Planning and Monitoring of Reproductive and Child Health Services: Operations Research (OR) in Family Planning and Reproductive Health

  • India: Integrating Adolescent Livelihood Activities Within a Reproductive Health Program for Urban Slum Dwellers

  • Kenya: Global Agenda: Improving the Reproductive Health of Youth in Kenya

  • Kenya: Institutionalizing a Successful Adolescent Reproductive Health and HIV Intervention Program: Expanding the Kenya Adolescent Reproductive Health Program Experience in Kenya

  • Mexico: Improving the Reproductive Health of Youth in Mexico

  • Nepal: Improving Young Couples’ Access to and Use of Reproductive Health Information and Services

  • Peru: A Diagnostic Study Relevant to the Promotion of Youth’s Health Behaviors in Alternative Development Zones of Peru

  • Peru: Information, Education, and Communication Strategies Culturally Appropriate for Improving Adolescents’ Reproductive Health in the Inca Region of Peru (Cusco)

  • Senegal: Enhancing Utilization of the Findings from the Youth Reproductive Health Project
  • Senegal: Evaluation of the Long-term Impact of the Tostan Program on the Abandonment of FGC and Early Marriage
  • Senegal: Global Agenda: Improving the Reproductive Health of Youth in Senegal
  • Senegal: Improving Communication About Reproductive Health in Families with Adolescents

  • South Africa: Assessing the Performance of Alternative Youth Center Models

  • South Africa: An Evaluation of the Impact on Adolescent Reproductive Health of Community-based Interventions for Supporting Orphaned and Vulnerable Children

• Horizons projects
  • Mexico: Programming for HIV Prevention in Mexican Schools

  • South Africa: Integrating “Abstinence” and “Be Faithful” (AB) into the Life Skills Program in Mpumalanga Province

  • South Africa: Programming for HIV Prevention in South African Schools
  • Thailand: Programming for HIV Prevention in Thai Schools

  • Uganda: Building Evaluation Capacity Among the Staff of the Straight Talk Program

  • Zambia: Decisions to Seek HIV Voluntary Counseling and Testing Among Zambian Adolescents: Influences of Individual, Familial, and Environmental Factors
  • Zambia: Promoting the Sustainability of PLHA Care and Support Activities by Young People in Zambia

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See Also

• "Social pressures are keys to adolescent reproductive behavior; Focus should be on how gender affects school, work, family, and childbearing" 1998 press release (full text)
• "Swahili translation of the Council's 'Healing wounds, instilling hope: The Tanzanian partnership against obstetric fistula' receives acclaim and media coverage in Tanzania" 2005 press release (full text)
• Child Marriage/Married Adolescents
• Transitions to Adulthood

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• Campaign to End Fistula

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This page updated 14 April 2009

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