Delivering Sexual and Reproductive Health Education to Girls

P-132: Female Adolescents Attitudes toward Sexual and Reproductive Health Education in Iran

Background: Despite clear reasons for necessity of sexual health education for adolescents, it is a contested issue and has faced challenges in most cultures. Adolescents, specially females in Iran have so many unmet needs in sexual health issues, yet appropriateness of sexual health education to them is controversy. This study aimed to examine female adolescents attitudes to sexual health educ...

The Costs of Delivering Integrated HIV and Sexual Reproductive Health Services in Limited Resource Settings

OBJECTIVE To present evidence on the total costs and unit costs of delivering six integrated sexual reproductive health and HIV services in a high and medium HIV prevalence setting, in order to support policy makers and planners scaling up these essential services. DESIGN A retrospective facility based costing study conducted in 40 non-government organization and public health facilities in K...

Sexual behaviour and sexual and reproductive health education: a cross-sectional study in Romania

BACKGROUND Up-to-date, genuine sexual and reproductive health (SRH) education programmes have been possible in Romania only since communism collapsed in 1990. Since 2006, Romania has had no national strategy in this field. Under current global circumstances (high labour mobility, internationally mixed marriages), issues previously considered solely national have become worldwide concerns. MET...

Sexual and reproductive health and rights of adolescent girls: Evidence from low- and middle-income countries

This paper reviews the evidence on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of adolescent girls in low-income and middle-income countries (LMIC) in light of the policy and programme commitments made at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), analyses progress since 1994, and maps challenges in and opportunities for protecting their health and human rights. Fin...

Sexual and Reproductive Health Strategy