Adolescents in Uganda: Sexual and Reproductive Health

Understanding sexual and reproductive health needs of adolescents: evidence from a formative evaluation in Wakiso district, Uganda

INTRODUCTION Adolescents are frequently reluctant to seek sexual and reproductive health services (SRH). In Uganda, adolescent health and development is constrained by translation of the relevant policies to practice. Recent studies done in central Uganda have shown that there is need for a critical assessment of adolescent friendly services (AFS) to gain insights on current practice and inform...

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...

Improving the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Young Adolescents The Young Adolescents Project (YAP) in Uganda

Perceptions of risk to HIV infection among adolescents in Uganda: are they related to sexual behaviour?

Uganda has been hailed as a success story in the fight against HIV that has seen a reversal in prevalence from a peak of 15% in 1991 to about 6.5% currently Since 1992, the largest and most consistent declines in HIV have occurred among the 15-19-year-olds. While many studies have examined how key behavior changes (Abstinence, Be faithful and Condom use) have contributed to the decline in HIV p...

Adolescents' views of and preferences for sexual and reproductive health services in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Malawi and Uganda.

Adolescents' views of and preferences for sexual and reproductive health services highlight promising directions and persistent challenges in preventing pregnancy and HIV and treating sexually-transmitted infections (STIs) in this population. Results from nationally-representative surveys of 12-19 year-olds in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Malawi and Uganda in 2004 show that contraceptive and STI servic...