Promoting Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health through Schools in Low Income Countries: An Information Brief

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This bulletin board is created to support the activities of the World Health Organization (WHO) at international, regional and national level to promote adolescent sexual / reproductive health absorption through schools of low-income countries it was done. It included team members' comments and valuable suggestions integrated with World Health Organization's adolescent health and development team Meena Cabral de Mello, Venkatraman Chandra-Mouli, Jane Ferguson, Paul Bloem, Krishna Bose and Garrett Mehl. Gauden Galea, Coordinator of the WHO Health Promotion Group, Educational Development Center of the WHO Collaborative Research Center in the United States, Carmen Aldridge, Psychiatry Professor and Helen Herrman, director of WHO's Mental Health Collaborative Research Center It is heightening.

This information was developed by the WHO Pediatric and Youth Health Development Department and staff of agencies working at the global, regional and national level to promote effective intervention to improve the sexual health of the youth We support other UN agencies. Reproductive Health The premise of introducing schools in low-income countries is that school-based sexual and reproductive health education is the most important and universal to help young people recognize and avoid risks and improve reproductive health It is one of the methods.

School-based sexual and reproductive health (SRH) education is one of the most important and common ways to help young people identify risks, avoid them, and improve reproductive health (1 , 2). This information summary highlights the public health concern of adolescent SRH. It also outlines the contributions that can help global, regional and national level WHO staff choose effective strategies and actions to support school health education intervention. The briefing is based on a plan of effective research and evaluation for young people who are in a similar situation.