Book Description
The papers in this volume show that Africa is a mosaic of cultures where local norms and values must be considered in order to successfully understand and manage the emerging sexual and reproductive health issues.
Author : Yanyi Kasongo Djamba
Publisher :
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 30,90 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Psychology
ISBN :
The papers in this volume show that Africa is a mosaic of cultures where local norms and values must be considered in order to successfully understand and manage the emerging sexual and reproductive health issues.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,75 MB
Release : 1993-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0309048974
This examination of changes in adolescent fertility emphasizes the changing social context within which adolescent childbearing takes place.
Author : Knut-Inge Klepp
Publisher : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 23,28 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Medical
ISBN :
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.
Author : Barthélémy Kuate Defo
Publisher :
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 36,71 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN :
Author : Anne-Emmanuèle Calvès
Publisher :
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 46,23 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Marriage
ISBN :
Author : National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Data and Research Priorities for Arresting AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa
Publisher : National Academies
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 36,59 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN :
The AIDS epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa continues to affect all facets of life throughout the subcontinent. Deaths related to AIDS have driven down the life expectancy rate of residents in Zambia, Kenya, and Uganda with far-reaching implications. This book details the current state of the AIDS epidemic in Africa and what is known about the behaviors that contribute to the transmission of the HIV infection. It lays out what research is needed and what is necessary to design more effective prevention programs.
Author : Hilary Standing
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 36,3 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : International Union for the Scientific Study of Population
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 12,95 MB
Release : 2008
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Dominique Meekers
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 25,95 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Africa
ISBN :
Author : Felix Kioli
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,25 MB
Release : 2010-08
Category : Youth
ISBN : 9783838387529
One critical observation about studies on adolescent sexuality in Kenya is that most have been done on fertility, contraceptive use, with much emphasis on out of school adolescents. Moreover, there is miniscule observational information on the sexual behaviour of primary school adolescents(10-15 years) and the social contexts under which it occurs. This book seeks to bridge that gap and address to sexual behaviour of the adolescents - both in primary and secondary schools. The book also notes that there is very little literature on current sexual behaviour practices among the Akamba people of Kenya. This has left a lacuna which this study aims to fill. Moreover, sexuality research and studies in Kenya are a recent phenomenon, thus, there still exists a paucity of literature in the area. The findings of this study will aid in augmenting existing research and literature on adolescent sexuality in Kenya. Further, it endeavours to verify substantial evidences based on clinical observations about adolescents sexual involvement. Most of the statistics from sub-Saharan Africa especially on HIV/AIDS, teenage pregnancies and other complications are quite alarming, as perceived by NGOs.