Background: Healthy children achieve better educational outcomes which, in turn, are associated with improved health later in life. The World Health Organization’s Health Promoting Schools (HPS) framework is a holistic approach to promoting health and educational attainment in school.
Reaching vulnerable adolescent girls with information and connecting them to services are not straightforward tasks. Poor girls in
In December 2013, ministers of education and health from twenty ESA countries affirmed and endorsed their joint commitment to deliver comprehensive sexuality
The objective of the “BALIKA: Bangladeshi Association for Life Skills, Income, and Knowledge for Adolescents” project is to generate programmatic evidence to delay marriage in Bangladesh.
As part of the Adolescents’ HIV prevention and treatment toolkit for Eastern and Southern Africa this poster is designed to encourage young people to know their HIV status.
This Report sets out the current context for Social, Personal and Health Education (SPHE) in Chapter Two.
This report presents an assessment of school feeding policies and institutions that affect young children in Uganda.
The World Health Organisation, amongst others, recognises that adolescent men have a vital yet neglected role in reducing teenage pregnancies and that there is a pressing need for educational interventions designed especially for them.
This is the first study to evaluate a menstrual education programme among adolescent school girls in Bangladesh. This study evaluated the menstrual knowledge, beliefs and practices of, and menstrual disorders experienced by, students in grade 6–8 in Bangladesh.
Since 2010, IPPF/WHR has published an evaluation of progress towards achieving the Ministerial Declaration (MD).