‘Addressing the sexual and reproductive health needs of adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa is vital, given the devastating impact of AIDS, the high rates of unintended pregnancy and the risk that those pregnancies may lead to unsafe abortions. Protecting the health of adolescents is clearly important for the adolescents themselves. Increased investment in adolescent sexual and reproductive health can contribute to wider development goals, because it enables adolescents to become healthy, produc more...

‘This paper focus on the key to Uganda’s continued success in reducing HIV/AIDS, as well as unwanted pregnancy and unsafe abortion, is a commitment to focusing on young people, who dominate the country’s population. This, however, is no simple task. Those committed to protecting the next generation of Ugandans must recognize the diversity and varying needs of adolescents. For all adolescents, one thing is certain: Any program or policy aimed at protecting the sexual and reproductive health more...

A paper developed by the Inter-Agency Working Group (IAWG), advocates for a better articulation of community-involvement processes and for more comprehensive measures of outcomes of community-involvement interventions. Co-chaired by UNFPA and CARE, the group's active members include: Advocates for Youth, CARE, Pathfinder International, Save the Children-USA, and UNFPA.

This issue of the monthly e-newsletter on youth reproductive health and HIV prevention features 16 program resources with Web links, and 12 journal article summaries on research from Brazil, Cameroon, Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, Taiwan, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe.

This issue of Youth InfoNet -- the monthly electronic newsletter on youth HIV prevention and reproductive health -- features 5 program resources with Web links, and 19 journal article summaries on research from Argentina, Brazil, China, Democratic Republic of Congo, India, Iran, Kenya, Lithuania, Nepal, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, and Vietnam.

This issue of the monthly e-newsletter on youth reproductive health and HIV prevention focuses on information from a major international youth conference held in April 2008, 'Youth Deliver the Future: Investing in Young People's Health and Development — Research that Improves Policies and Programs.'

This issue of the monthly e-newsletter on youth reproductive health and HIV prevention features 13 program resources with Web links, and 13 journal article summaries on research from China, El Salvador, Namibia, Peru, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, and Zambia.

This issue of the monthly e-newsletter on youth reproductive health and HIV prevention features 12 program resources with Web links, and 9 journal article summaries on research from Brazil, Costa Rica, India, Libya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe.