This report finds that, compared to the situation 20 years ago, young people are entering adolescence in better health and reaching puberty earlier. They are also more likely to attend school, more likely to postpone entering the labor force, and more likely to delay marriage and childbearing.
The CD-ROM provides free access to health information and training materials to health workers in developing countries.
Wars and natural disasters deny generations the knowledge and opportunities that an education can provide.
This report presents the findings of research proposed and implemented by a team of Shan and Karen researchers regarding girls and women who have migrated from Burma into domestic work in Thailand.
This document is a summary of the National Youth Risk Behaviour Survey 2003-2004 conducted by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports with the support of UNICEF and UNESCO. The aim of the survey was to assess the risk behaviour of young people between ages of 11 and 18.
Released in July 2004, Community Operated Youth Centres in Myanmar is published as part of a series entitled Lessons Learned, which aims at documenting and disseminating lessons learned from projects with good and promising practices.
This report provides a regional overview of adolescents' knowledge of HIV/AIDS and behaviors that put them at risk for or protect them from infection. It also examines the social and economic context of adolescents' lives.
Este estudio fue realizado en el marco del proyecto "Construcción de una respuesta intersectorial en Salud Sexual y Reproductiva, con énfasis en prevención y atención a las ETS-VIH-SIDA, con jóvenes y adolescentes residentes en comunidades receptoras de población desplazada en el municipio d
Presentación de los programas y proyectos apoyados por el UNFPA acerca de salud sexual y reproductiva de los jóvenes.
El presente documento es el resultado del esfuerzo conjunto entre los Programas Regionales de Tuberculosis (TB) y el de VIH/SIDA/ITS de la PAHO, basados en el reconocimiento de la necesidad de intensificar la planificación conjunta de actividades y realizar el monitoreo de la coepidemia en la Reg