Teachers’ conflicting cultural schemas of teaching comprehensive school-based sexuality education in Kampala, Uganda
Teachers can feel uncomfortable teaching sexuality education when the content conflicts with their cultural values and beliefs.
Teachers can feel uncomfortable teaching sexuality education when the content conflicts with their cultural values and beliefs.
With a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevalence of 2.1% among 15–24 year olds, opportunities for further integration of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and HIV prevention services for young people in Uganda exist.
Uganda is among the countries with the highest rates of new HIV infections in Sub-Saharan Africa where young people aged 15-24 accounts for 60% of the 83,000 new infections.
Childhood obesity is of increasing concern in many parts of Africa. The authors conducted a systematic search and review of published literature on behavioural childhood obesity prevention interventions.
The primary objective of the study is to evaluate the success of the Journeys intervention in improving school climate; shifting gender attitudes toward more gender equality; strengthening student’s social and emotional learning; and reducing the prevalence and extent that pupils experience bully
This issue of the African Development Perspectives addresses sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in Africa, with the backdrop of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Programme of Action (PoA), signed by 179 governments twenty-five years ago, in 1994, in C
Ce guide a pour objectif de revenir sur les liens entre décentralisation, Droits et Santé Sexuels et Reproductifs/Planification Familiale (DSSR/PF) et plaidoyer sur le plan à la fois théorique et pratique.
The situational analysis presents the latest data on the magnitude of Early and unintended pregnancy (EUP) and the impact on girls’ education in the ESA region.
This regional report documents promising practices and lessons learned, from four West African countries (Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal and Togo), and proposes key recommendations to be shared with all countries in the region.
Through the Purchase from Africans for Africa programme (PAA Africa), the FAO has been engaging in providing technical support to African Governments for building adapted and operational public food procurement methods from smallholder farmers for school feeding.