Positive Youth Development as a Strategy to Promote Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health

Young people and young people in the United States have experienced a surprisingly high percentage of adverse effects of sexually transmitted diseases, reproductive health such as sexual health and HIV / AIDS and pregnancy. About 745,000 women under the age of 20 are pregnant each year. From 2005 to 2006, the birth rate of young people aged 15 to 19 increased by 3%, becoming the first increase since 1991 [1]. In the United States, a quarter (26%, 2 million) of young women aged 14-19 are infected with at least one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases (STI) [2].

Despite improvements in adolescent sex and reproductive health, the proportion of unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted infants between adolescents and adolescents is still higher than in other developed countries, and certain races in different geographic regions and It is much higher among ethnic youth. (Kaiser Family Foundation). Medical institutions, schools, youth service organizations and other organizations benefit from support for adolescent sexual health

According to this strategy reproductive health includes family planning and the need for "aid", safe mothers and children's survival efforts, youth and youth health promotion, sexual and reproductive rights, sexually transmitted diseases, HIV / AIDS management is included. Pregnancy management and other reproductive health issues The policy guidelines of family planning service providers formulated in the 1980s were revised to reflect the broader concept of reproductive health. Reproductive health / family planning and service provider standards were announced in 1997. In order to guide the necessity of reproductive health, the national reproductive health implementation plan of 1999 - 2003 was formulated.

Norway's Church Assistance, Provisional Document Series No. 1/2004 Women's Rights as Human Rights: Contradiction between Kenya's Policies and Practice

Comprehensive health education on sex and reproduction and access to youth-friendly gender and reproductive health services - teenage girls and boys - from young pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases (including HIV infection) It is indispensable to protect 4. UN Population Fund and United Nations Children's Fund. The end of 2009 is visible: towards abolishing female genital cutting / cutting. Annual report of UNFPA / UNICEF joint program on female reproductive organs. New York: United Nations Population Fund

As in many parts of the world in Africa, adolescent reproductive health is a controversial issue for policy makers and program planners. Young people are particularly vulnerable to many other issues such as HIV, AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases, unwanted pregnancies, dangerous abortions, sexual abuse, female genital excision, dangerous circumcision. However, in many countries there is no need for adolescent health policy, there are more needs to make adolescent young people receive appropriate sexual and reproductive health services.