Access to sexual and reproductive health for young people: Bridging the disconnect between rights and reality

Of the 1.5 billion young people globally, 78% live in Asia and Africa, the poorest regions of the world. The
majority of young people infected with HIV are female and adolescent girls have a significant increased risk
for maternal mortality and morbidity, such as fistula. Trends to delay marriage do not decrease the age of
onset of sexual activity, but highlight the need for access to sexual and reproductive information, and skills
and services to learn healthy sexuality and prevent unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections.
Youth-friendly services require confidentiality, privacy, and non-judgmental attitudes, and rights of
adolescents include the consideration of their evolving capacities to consent to services. Denial of young
people’s sexuality and rights by conservative and traditional forces has lethal consequences, especially for
women and girls. Countries have committed to these rights through numerous international instruments and
many are making progress, but challenges at the community level are significant

Access to SRHR for young people

 

 

Linking Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and HIV Services for Young People

Sexual health and access to services are a pressing need for young people. This article introduces Link Up, a
3-year project in three African and two Asian countries, to enable and scale up access to integrated HIV
services and sexual and reproductive health and rights for marginalized young people. The young people we
worked with in this project included young men who have sex with men, young sex workers, young people
who use drugs, young transgender people, young homeless people, and other vulnerable young people. The
research and programmatic activities of Link Up, as illustrated in this Supplement, have highlighted the
importance of recognizing and engaging with diversity among young people to improve access to services
and outcomes protecting their health and human rights

 

Link SRHR & HIV

AmplifyChange Strengthening grant for SRHR

From 8 January until 5 February 2019 a call for strengthening grants will be open to support small and medium-sized southern-based organisations (Sub-Saharan Africa or South Asia; community groups, non-governmental organisations, indigenous groups, charitable organisations, faith-based organisations, research institutes, social enterprise groups, public-private partnerships, communications and media groups and professional associations). In this Strengthening Grant round AmplifyChange is particularly interested to receive applications focusing on:

  • Abortion: AmplifyChange aims for one third of grants approved in this Strengthening round to support projects working to remove barriers to safe abortion including decriminalisation
  • Access: AmplifyChange aims for one third of grants approved in this Strengthening round to support project working to increase access to comprehensive reproductive health services for poor, vulnerable and marginalised people
  • The remaining grants will be distributed to the best applications working on the remaining three themes: Gender-Based Violence (GBV), Stigma and Youth.

AmplifyChange will offer funding between EUR40,000 – EUR100,000 over a 12-month period (further details on rules and eligibility can be found here).

Please read the full announcement for more information on the grant, including links to the online guidance, eligibility criteria and how to apply (see here for information in French). 

URL:https://amplifychange.org/about-us/

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