[afro-nets] Promoting Young People's Sexual Health

[Claire Maxwell <C.Maxwell@ioe.ac.uk>]

Promoting Young People's Sexual Health: International
Perspectives
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The six-year, UK Department for International Development (DfID)
funded research programme - Safe Passages to Adulthood - has
recently come to an end.

To celebrate the completion of the Safe Passages to Adulthood
research programme, two of the directors of the project, Roger
Ingham and Peter Aggleton have edited a collection of key
writings by the researchers involved in the work.

Promoting Young People's Sexual Health: International
Perspectives
Roger Ingham and Peter Aggleton (editors), Routledge, 2006

Chapters cover

* Understanding young people and sexual health
* Uses and abuses of surveys on the sexual behaviour of young
   people
* Young people and condom use; findings from qualitative studies
* The importance of context in seeking to understand and promote
   sexual health
* Gender, sexual behaviour and vulnerability among young people
* Groups who are more vulnerable to poor sexual health
* Meeting the sexual health needs of young people living on the
   street
* Young people's same-sex relationships, sexual health and well-
   being
* Sexual violence and young people's sexual health in developing
   countries: intersections
* For love or money: the role of exchange in young people's
   sexual relationships
* Approaches to improving youth sexual and reproductive health
* Using evaluation to improve the sexual health of young people
* Sexual health communication: letting young people have their
   say
* Young people and sex and relationships education
* Research and policy in young people's sexual health

This newly published collection of writings on young people and
sexual and reproductive health will be of interest to policy-
makers, practitioners, researchers, teachers and students living
and working across the world.

Available for purchase at:
http://www.routledge.com/ or http://www.amazon.co.uk/

See: http://www.safepassages.soton.ac.uk/ - for further details,
including free resources which support the development of new
ways of understanding and meeting the sexual and reproductive
health needs of young people in resource-constrained settings.


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Dr. Claire Maxwell
Research Officer
Thomas Coram Research Unit
Institute of Education, University of London
27-28 Woburn Square
London WC1H 0AA, UK
mailto:c.maxwell@ioe.ac.uk
http://www.ioe.ac.uk/tcru