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Working with young men to improve sexual and reproductive health (pdf 215kb)

This report details a UK Government funded program (Safe Passages to Adulthood) that researched young people's sexual and reproductive health in developing countries with the aim to enable young people to improve their sexual and reproductive health.

In order to achieve this goal, the program worked to increase the research capacity of developing country partners and generate new knowledge that would lead to the development of guidelines for action at program and policy levels.

The five main objectives of the program were to:

- fill key knowledge gaps relating to the nature, magnitude and consequences of reproductive and sexual health problems among young people
- identify situation specific determinants of young people's sexual behaviour
- identify culturally appropriate means by which barriers to good sexual and reproductive health can be overcome
- identify new opportunities to introduce and evaluate innovative program interventions
- develop concepts and methods appropriate to the investigation of young people's sexual and reproductive health.

In conclusion this report offers guidelines for those planning to work with young men in the sexual and reproductive health realm.

 

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