Promoting adolescent sexual and reproductive health in East and Southern Africa
By: edited by Knut-Inge Klepp, Alan J. Flisher and Sylvia F. Kaaya.
Contributors: Klepp, Knut-Inge.; Flisher, Alan J.; Kaaya, Sylvia F.
Publisher: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet; HSRC Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Uppsala, Sweden; Cape Town, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9789171065995; 9780796922106
Subjects: Teenagers -- Sexual behavior -- Africa, Southern.; Teenagers -- Sexual behavior -- Africa, East.; Reproductive health -- Africa, Southern.; Reproductive health -- Africa, East.; Health education -- Africa, Southern.; Health education -- Africa, East.; AIDS (Disease) in adolescence -- Africa.
Description: In Africa, as in many parts of the world, adolescent reproductive health is a controversial issue for policy makers and programme planners. Adolescents are particularly vulnerable to HIV and AIDS and to a host of other problems such as sexually transmitted infection, unwanted pregnancy, unsafe abortions, sexual abuse, female genital mutilation and unsafe circumcision. Yet many countries do not have adolescent health policies in place and much remains to be done to ensure that adolescents can access appropriate sexual and reproductive health services. The authors of this volume present new perspectives and strategies to promote adolescent sexual and reproductive health. In particular, they make a unique attempt to bring together social and biomedical science and to disseminate concrete empirical evidence from existing programmes, carefully analysing what works and what does not at the local level.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 288-326) and index.