The rapid growth in school attendance and attainment rates in developing countries has
meant that a rising proportion of young people are becoming sexually mature while still …

Among the ground-breaking achievements of the International Conference on Population
and Development (ICPD) was its call to place adolescent sexual and reproductive health …

This report presents findings from a study of sexual and reproductive health status of
inschool and out-of-school adolescents in Dodowa, Ghana, carried out in 2001. The …

Ten years after the International Conference on Population and Development, sexual and
reproductive health issues concerning adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa have become …

Context: The social and economic context in which Malian adolescents begin sexual activity
is different from that experienced by previous generations. Little is known about the forces …

To facilitate the design of effective policies that can address adolescent's reproductive health
problems, it is necessary to gain a thorough understanding of patterns of adolescents' …

Although most people in developed countries experience sexual initiation during
adolescence, little is known about inter-country variability in the psychosocial correlates of …

Background The number of young people utilising sexual and reproductive health services
in Pacific Island Countries and Territories remains poor despite the availability and the …

This study aimed to contribute to the evidence on the timing of sexual debut in young people
in sub-Saharan African countries. Data were extracted from 34 nationally representative …

Context: Differences among developed countries in teenagers' patterns of sexual and
reproductive behavior may partly reflect differences in the extent of disadvantage. However …