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Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in Ghana:Results from the 2004 National Survey of Adolescents
Publication Date: June 2006
Publisher(s): Guttmacher Institute
Author(s): Akwasi Kumi-Kyereme; Ann Biddlecom; Kofi Awusabo-Asare; Kate Patterson
Funder(s): Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; United States. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; Rockefeller Foundation
Funder(s): Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; United States. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; Rockefeller Foundation
Topic: Health (Health services for adolescents)
Type: Report
Abstract:
Ten years after the International Conference on Population
and Development, sexual and reproductive health issues concerning adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa have become even more critical than in the 1990s. By the end of 2005, an estimated 4.6% of females and 1.7% of males aged 15 to24 years in Sub-Saharan Africa were living with HIV and about one in 10 young women experienced a premarital birth by age 20.