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Protecting the Next Generation: Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health

The Protecting the Next Generation Program works to convince key decision makers to acknowledge and address young people’s sexual and reproductive health needs with regard to sex education, contraceptive access and counseling, and prevention of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV. We document and analyze young people’s knowledge, concerns, preferences and behavior; examine and suggest evidence-based improvements to policies and programs; and communicate our knowledge to a broad audience including policymakers, health care providers, media, researchers and activists.

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Protecting the Next Generation

Highlights

On April 27, Guttmacher convened a meeting of experts on adolescent sexual and reproductive health and HIV prevention to discuss Guttmacher’s latest findings from a study of 20,000 young Africans and what this new evidence suggests for program and policy reform.

 
youths at AIDS conference
Youth leaders from Ghana, Burkina Faso
and Uganda
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