Adolescent & Youth Sexual & Reproductive Health

Future Scenarios of Adolescent Contraceptive Use, Cost and Impact in Developing Regions offers the most comprehensive estimates on this topic to date, based on projections of future adolescent contraceptive use and accounting for variations in population growth and service costs across regions. The findings are intended to help inform investments…[Read more]

Future Scenarios of Adolescent Contraceptive Use, Costs and Impact in Developing RegionsMeeting adolescents’ needs for contraceptive services is a critical health and development goal and helps enable adolescents to control whether and when they become pregnant and have children. About half of pregnancies among adolescent women (defined as those aged 15–19) in developing regions are unintended, and more than half of these end in an induced, and often unsafe, abortion.

Checkout this rapid Supervisory/Self-Assessment Checklist for Adolescent Friendly Health Services that WHO SEARO developed and shared with us: https://tciurbanhealth.org/topic/supervisory-self-assessment-checklist-for-adolescent-friendly-health-services/. It would be quite helpful in assessing the current status of your services and then you can…[Read more]

Supervisory/Self-Assessment Checklist for Adolescent Friendly Health Services | The Challenge Initiative

Interested in learning more about how to advocate for adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health? Check out WHO and partners advocacy toolkit! It outlines
a step-by-step process for encouraging action among decision-makers, opinion leaders, medical personnel, researchers, and affected communities to prevent early pregnancy and poor…[Read more]

Two new, excellent how-to resources have been added to the AYSRH toolkit: The Training Resource Package for Pre-Service Education in Family Planning and Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health by E2A Project: https://www.e2aproject.org/publication/training-resource-package-pre-service-education-family-planning-adolescent-youth-sexual-re…[Read more]

The Training Resource Package for Pre-Service Education in Family Planning and Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health — E2A - Evidence to ActionThe purpose of the TRP for pre-service education is to harmonize and strengthen the FP and AYSRH training topics for pre-service nursing and midwifery education through the application of evide Read more...

“There is widespread acknowledgement that a competent and caring health worker is critical to the provision of adolescent-responsive health services. To achieve this, there is strong consensus that we need to invest in building and supporting the abilities of health workers to respond to their adolescent patients—and, where relevant, their c…[Read more]

Another really interesting AYSRH-related webinar is scheduled for July 12 at 10am EST: Focusing on the ‘S’ in Social and Behavior Change: Scaling Up Norms-Shifting Interactions for Adolescent Health. Register at: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/1701853076173889027.

Hi all! I wanted to share with you some upcoming youth-related webinars that are all scheduled for June: https://mailchi.mp/youthpower/youthpower-newsletter-issue-1152653?e=b60f59652a. TCI will be hosting its own “AYSRH Office Hours” webinar series but they will likely begin in July/Aug. In the meantime, I thought I’d share in case some of these…[Read more]

YouthPower Learning Upcoming Webinars

The Youth Caucus of the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition developed a Handbook on Young People and Contraceptive Access, which explains how to use 18 evidence-based policy recommendations or “Key Messages”. To learn more about the handbook, check it out along with a webinar: https://www.rhsupplies.org/activities-resources/webinars/video/young-…[Read more]

Young People and Contraceptive Access - An advocacy and communications handbookThe Reporoductive Health Supplies Coalition