This evaluation gives a broad description of Sida's support to SRHR, but lack comprehensive analysis and innovative proposals. One general conclusion ...

Background The youths in Zambia have limited access to information concerning Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH) and this puts them at risk of unwanted ...

Background: Child marriage is associated with adverse reproductive health outcomes, and the practice is still alarmingly common. Together with efforts ...

Background Adolescents face a range of health problems but many barriers block their access to health services, and in particular to sexual and reproductive ...

Development actors have increasingly recognised the importance of the political determinants of health. One way in which politics and power dynamics impact ...

Among the ground-breaking achievements of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) was its call to place adolescent sexual and ...

This article provides a conceptual framework and points out the key elements for creating enabling environments for adolescent sexual and reproductive ...

Despite increased evidence of international lobbying groups working to restrict sexual and reproductive health and rights policies at international bodies ...

Early pregnancy occurs frequently in Zambia and is considered a public health issue. The aim of this study was to improve understanding of how gendered ...

Europe experiences ultra-conservative push-backs on social advances in sexual and reproductive rights. Who are the actors, what motivates them and how do they work?

Young people between the ages of 10 and 19 make up 23% of Pakistan’s population. In Pakistan, young people face many challenges in terms of sexual ...

In Tanzania, there is a striking increase in the number of girls who get pregnant from the ages 16 to 20. Among 16 year olds, 11 percent get pregnant, whereas 61 percent of the 20 year old girls start childbearing. Why do so many girls have babies when they are this young? How does this affect their economic situation and possibilities of entering the job market?

The background of the study is the very high prevalence of mortality and morbidity in Sub-Saharan countries due to abortions induced by unsafe methods. ...

Sexual and reproductive rights are lightening-rods of controversy in most societies. Political polarization has been particularly pronounced with regard ...

This project aims to measure the effect of economic support and community dialogue on early child-bearing rates in rural Zambia. Adolescent pregnancies ...

Family planning policies have been implemented around the world for decades, but with limited results. This is also the case in Tanzania where school dropout is a big problem and the majority of girls get pregnant by the age of 20. What are they doing wrong?

The study takes place in Tanzania and investigates the behaviour of girls when they are on the verge of making some of the most important decisions ...

In Sudan's Islamist state, abortion is politicized through its association to illegal pregnancy. Fornication is crime against God punishable with 100 ...

Over the past few years the issue of child marriage has received growing political and programmatic attention. In spite of some progress in a number of ...

Millennium Development Goal number 5 (MDG 5) aims to reduce maternal mortality. In this brief we argue that, in the current global context more rigorous ...