The Country Cases Series are developed within UNFPA's project “Out-of-School Comprehensive sexuality education for those left furthest behind” in Colombia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Iran and Malawi, with the financial support of Norway.
In 2015, the Population Council in conjunction with UNFPA conducted a study that drew on data from the 2013–14 Zambia Demographic and Health Survey and the 2010 Census of Population and Housing to identify where adolescent pregnancy is most likely to occur in Zambia.
This report is a focused update to the comprehensive 2013 report, Young People and the Law in Asia and the Pacific: A Review of Laws and Policies Affecting Young People’s Access to Reproductive Health and HIV Services.
The teenage pregnancy and motherhood rate in Kenya stands at 18%. This implies that about 1 in every 5 teenage girls between the ages of 15-19 years, have either had a live birth or are pregnant with their first child.
This technical guidance, developed by the UNFPA- and WHO-led Adolescent Working Group of Every Woman Every Child, aims to support countries to both advocate for increased investments in adolescent health and to guide strategic choices and decision-making for such investments to be reflected in na
De acuerdo a estimaciones de las Naciones Unidas, dos tercios de los nacimientos de hijos/as de madres adolescentes (15 a 19 años) de América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) ocurren en los países del Cono Sur.
El objetivo de este análisis es conocer a profundidad cómo las leyes y políticas afectan el acceso de adolescentes y jóvenes a información y servicios de salud sexual reproductiva (SSR) y al virus de inmunodeficiencia humana (VIH).
This publication offers in-depth programmatic guidance on how to develop CSE programmes that are appropriate and safe for different groups of children and young people, especially those who are unlikely to be addressed in CSE programmes for children and young people generally.
My Body, My Life, My World is UNFPA's new global strategy for adolescents and youth. It puts young people - their talents, hopes, perspectives and unique need - at the very centre of sustainable development.
UNFPA’s approach to upholding the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of adolescents and youth is encapsulated in its global strategy My Body, My Life, My World. At the start of 2020, the world was confronted by a pandemic in the form of COVID-19.