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Promoting adolescent sexual and reproductive health in East and Southern Africa / edited by Knut-Inge Klepp, Alan J. Flisher and Sylvia F. Kaaya.

Title: Promoting adolescent sexual and reproductive health in East and Southern Africa / edited by Knut-Inge Klepp, Alan J. Flisher and Sylvia F. Kaaya.
Publication: Uppsala, Sweden : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet ; Cape Town, South Africa : HSRC Press, 2008.

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344 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

In Africa, as in many parts of the world, adolescent reproductive health is a controversial issue for policy makers and programme planners. Adolescents are particularly vulnerable to HIV and AIDS and to a host of other problems such as sexually transmitted infection, unwanted pregnancy, unsafe abortions, sexual abuse, female genital mutilation and unsafe circumcision. Yet many countries do not have adolescent health policies in place and much remains to be done to ensure that adolescents can access appropriate sexual and reproductive health services. The authors of this volume present new perspectives and strategies to promote adolescent sexual and reproductive health. In particular, they make a unique attempt to bring together social and biomedical science and to disseminate concrete empirical evidence from existing programmes, carefully analysing what works and what does not at the local level.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 288-326) and index.

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Contents

Public policy: a tool to promote adolescent sexual and reproductive health / Yogan Pillay and Alan J. Flisher -- Social cognition models and social cognitive theory: predicting sexual and reproductive behaviour among adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa / Leif E. Aarø, Herman Schaalma, and Anne Nordrehaug Åstrøm -- Health education and the promotion of reproductive health: theory and evidence-based development and diffusion of intervention programmes / Herman Schaalma and Sylvia F. Kaaya -- Ethical dilemmas in adolescent reproductive health promotion / Gro Th. Lie -- From initiation rituals to AIDS education: entering adulthood at the turn of the millenium / Graziella Van den Bergh -- Illegal abortion among adolescents in Dar es Salaam / Vibeke Rasch and Margrethe Silberschmidt -- Adolescent sexuality and the AIDS epidemic in Tanzania: what has gone wrong? / Melkizedeck T. Leshabari, Sylvia F. Kaaya, and Anna Tengia-Kessy -- To risk or not to risk? Is it a question? Sexual debut, poverty and vulnerability in times of HIV: a case from Kigoma Region, Tanzania / Graziella Van den Bergh -- Peer education for adolescent reproductive health: an effective method for program delivery, a powerful empowerment strategy, or neither? / Sheri Bastien ... [et al.] -- Adolescent-friendly health services in Uganda / John Arube-Wani, Jessica Jitta, and Lillian Mpabulungi Ssengooba -- Quality of care: assessing nurses' and midwives' attitudes towards adolescents with sexual and reproductive health problems / Elisabeth Faxelid ... [et al.] -- Evaluating adolescent sexual and reproductive health interventions in southern and eastern Africa / Alan J. Elisher, Wanjiru Mukoma, and Johann Louw -- A systematic review of school-based HIV/AIDS prevention programmes in South Africa / Wanjiru Mukoma and Alan J. Flisher.

ISBN

9789171065995 (pbk. : Sweden)
9171065997 (pbk. : Sweden)
9780796922106 (pbk. : South Africa)
0796922101 (pbk. : South Africa)

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^^2008380236

OCLC

184829564

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Harvard Library