The Essential Health Care Programme (EHCP) is a successful response to a number of serious health problems facing Philippine children.

Adolescence is a time of great change and growth, when young people are negotiating a range of influences, including religious ones.

This report presents the findings of the 2012 pilot assessment of the school health policies for the following Caribbean community (CARICOM) countries: Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, St. Lucia, Barbados, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

The provision of quality schools, textbooks, and teachers can result in effective education only if a child is in school and ready and able to learn.

Aim: To establish an overview of school-based interventions carried out to support the health and well-being of vulnerable children in Zimbabwe and similar socio-economic contexts in sub-Saharan Africa.

Objectives: To describe the sexual and reproductive behaviour of adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly 15- to 19-year-olds.

Nyanza Province has been a focus of heightened attention in Kenya since the advent of the country’s HIV epidemic.

Despite its relative infrequency, pregnancy is perceived by parents in rural Malawi as a leading cause of school dropout among female students.

Women in South Africa have had fewer children on average since the 1970s, but the rate of teenage childbearing in South Africa has remained the same.

Parental communication and support is associated with improved developmental, health and behavioral outcomes in adolescence.