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• Helping adolescents protect their health is an important public health priority. Beyond
benefiting young people themselves, increased investment in adolescent sexual and …

As adolescents progress through puberty, many biological changes occur and, for young
women, this includes the onset of menses and the capability for reproduction. During this …

In India, the prevalent stigma and taboos regarding sexuality prevent adolescents from
acquiring information about sexual and reproductive health. This review assessed the …

In recent years one of the major challenges facing educators has been providing education
programs to assist young people to gain the knowledge, skills and understanding they need …

Long the domain of feminist, psychological and criminological research, interest in sexual
violence (and more broadly in violence related to gender and sexuality) has widened as a …

Among other key issues, the Programme of Action of the International Conference on
Population and Development (ICPD) held in Cairo in 1994 and the Platform for Action of the …

The UK has the highest rate of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), especially among
young people, in western Europe. Knowledge of what influences young people's sexual …

Objectives: To locate reports of sexual health education interventions for young people,
assess the methodological quality of evaluations, identify the subgroup with a …

Human rights principles have not played a prominent role in discussions of health in the
USA. Human rights discussions in the context of medicine or public health have usually …