Adolescent Health and Information Projects

Reproductive health (maternal and child health, family planning, adolescent health, men's health, women's health, safe motherhood).

Adolescent reproductive health problems have also attracted attention.

International Workshop on Adolescent Health held at Kuala Lumpur

(a) Enhance its efforts to address adolescent health issues and ensure that the programmes for adolescent health are effectively implemented, including through the provision of adequate resources

The Committee recommends that the State party pay close attention to adolescent health, taking into account the Committee's general comment No. 4 on adolescent health and development.

Third European Forum for Adolescent Health, held at Utrecht, the Netherlands

The Programme aims to promote adolescent health standards through health education on health related issues in general, and on reproductive health in particular.

The Committee recommends that the State party ensure adequate adolescent health services, as stated in its general comment No. 4 (2003) on adolescent health, implementing in particular programmes on reproductive health, sex education and family planning.

The Committee recommends that the State party further improve the adolescent health programme addressing, specifically, reproductive health issues, sex education and mental health.

(b) Take into account general comment No. 4 (2003) on adolescent health and development

Pan American Congress of Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Havana, 30 March to 1 April 2004.

UNFPA had provided guidance to country offices on inadequate attention to adolescent reproductive health in PRSPs.

Adopt a rights based approach to adolescent health, consistent with the Convention on the Rights of the Child which would include ensuring access to sex education for boys and girls and to confidential, accessible and youth friendly adolescent health services.

Adolescent nonsense!

The Committee notes the efforts undertaken by the State party to implement the right to health of adolescents, in particular the adolescent health programme.

The Committee is concerned at the lack of adolescent health services and the large number of teenage pregnancies.

The Committee is concerned that insufficient attention has been given by the State party to adolescent health issues, including developmental, mental and reproductive health concerns.

The Ministry of Health, in cooperation with the World Health Organization (WHO), launched the Adolescent Health Programme in 2002, which targets the 10 19 age group, about 4.5 million inhabitants.

C. Adolescent fertility

They noted a need for adolescent reproductive health programmes in school, and encouraged UNFPA to continue its activities in Myanmar to secure people's reproductive health and rights.

9. The high rate of adolescent fertility had serious implications for the health, education and employment opportunities of young mothers.

Adolescent rumination syndrome H1b.

WAGGGS is working on an advocacy campaign on the prevention of adolescent pregnancy in conjunction with WHO which highlights the problems of adolescent pregnancy and the affects of motherhood on the health of very young women.

WAGGGS provides education on sensitive issues that girls otherwise may not have the opportunity to understand WAGGGS runs peer education projects on HIV AIDS, adolescent health, promoting healthy lifestyles, food and nutrition, the prevention of adolescent pregnancy.

Are you still an adolescent?

57. To address adolescent reproductive health issues, including HIV infection and AIDS, through the promotion of responsible and healthy reproductive and sexual behaviour.

The Territory conducted a healthy lifestyles survey in December 1993 and an adolescent and youth health needs survey in January and February 1994.

So we have the perpetual adolescent.

So we have the perpetual adolescent.

Those adolescent martyrs typical of Antonello.

Ongoing activities have also been accelerated in such areas as women apos s health and AIDS research in human reproduction the promotion of women apos s leadership and women apos s health, especially adolescent health, reproductive health and, more recently, the emerging issue of the health of refugee women.

They encouraged UNFPA to work with NGOs on sensitive issues such as adolescent reproductive health, and encouraged further collaboration with the Ministry for Women.

Yet adolescent refugees often cannot access education.

I acted just like a stupid adolescent

Furthermore, the US Bureau of Health Professions projects that the demand for child and adolescent psychiatry services will increase by 100 between 1995 and 2020.

It has been reported that adolescents aged 15 19 years represent 0.5 percent of cases of substance use (Adolescent Reproductive Health Survey in 2002 2003).

They urged UNFPA to address the aspect of adolescent health with urgency, and supported its efforts to combat HIV AIDS and reduce gender based violence.

The adolescent reproductive health project, which is aimed at promoting the participation of a large number of young people in sports and socio educational activities, with a view to increasing their awareness of reproductive health issues

It is also true that indicators concerning early adolescent pregnancy and first time maternal mortality among adolescent and young women have not yet decreased.

In Côte d apos Ivoire, AIDS is the leading cause of mortality among adolescent males and the second cause of death for adolescent females.

As part of the social benefits measures have been taken on behalf of the adolescent population with a focus on addiction prevention and sex and reproductive health education.

With regard to protection, it had a national child and adolescent protection system whose highest authority was the National Council for Child and Adolescent Rights.

A report by the US Bureau of Health Professions (2000) projected a need in the year 2020 for 12,624 child and adolescent psychiatrists, but a supply of only 8,312.

Given girls' low economic and social status, they are vulnerable to unwanted sexual activity and early marriage and they are without access to accurate, adolescent friendly reproductive health information.