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This edition departs from our regular format to focus on information from a major international youth conference held in April 2008, “Youth Deliver the Future: Investing in Young People’s Health and Development — Research that Improves Policies and Programs.” Next month, we will return to our regular format summarizing new program resources and summaries of articles from peer-reviewed journals.
The conference was held in Abuja, Nigeria, and hosted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health with its Nigeria partners, the Center for Population and Reproductive Health at the University of Ibadan and the Department of Community Health at Obafemi Awolowo University. In June 2008, the Interagency Youth Working Group (IYWG) and Gates Institute co-sponsored a half-day meeting in Washington, DC, to share and discuss key messages and several topic areas from the conference.
1. Overview of the “Investing in Young People’s Health and Development” conference
2. Presentation on key messages from the conference
3. Call to Action for increased investments in young people’s health and development
4. Conference presentations, abstracts, and posters
5. Lists of presentations from the conference by topic area
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1. Overview of the “Investing in Young People’s Health and Development” conference (PDF, 65 KB)
This two-page handout provides an overview of the conference and includes summaries of the conference objectives, program, research messages, and next steps.
2. Presentation on key messages from the conference (PDF, 118 KB)
Dr. Robert Blum, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, presented on key messages from the conference at the meeting in Washington, DC.
3. Call to Action for increased investments in young people’s health and development
This document, developed at the conference, calls for increased investments in evidence-based activities to improve young people’s health and development.
4. Conference presentations, abstracts, and posters
PowerPoint slides and abstracts from presentations at the conference, as well as poster abstracts, are available on this conference Web site.
You can also view presentations or abstracts by clicking on the presentation tracks or poster sessions Iisted here:
1A. Youth, Society and Risk
1B. Menstrual Health and Early Adolescence
1C. Models of Youth Friendly Services
1D. USAID Interagency Youth Working Group and FHI Sponsored Panel: Faith-Based Groups Help Parents and Others Approach Taboo Subject of Sexuality through New Curricula
2A. Parental Factors and Adolescent and Orphan Well-being
2B. Determinants of Sexual Behavior
2C. Adolescent Reproductive Health Programs and Policies 1
2D. USAID Interagency Youth Working Group and FHI Sponsored Panel: Youth Peer Education in Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS: How to Build Effective Projects
3A. Beyond the Proximate: Contextual Factors Influencing Young People’s Reproductive Health
3B. Youth and Contraception
3C. Education and Youth Development
4A. Gender Norms: Correlates and Consequences
4B. Adolescent Sexual Behavior, Pregnancy and Childbearing
4C. Service Delivery Models and Quality of Care
4D. Population Council Panel: Focusing on Girls
5A. Sexual and Reproductive Health among Youths in Vulnerable Situations I
5B. Youth Utilization of Services
5C. Evaluation of Behavior Change Interventions
5D. Marriage Risks for Adolescents
6A. Sexual and Reproductive Health among Youths in Vulnerable Situations II
6B. Mass Media Influences on Sexual Behavior
6C. The Role of School Programs and Policies
6D. Delaying Early Marriage
7A. Gender and Cultural Influences on Sexual Behavior
7B. Male Reproductive Health
7C. HIV Infection, STIs and Risk Factors in Young People
7D. International Center for Research on Women Panel: Policy and Advocacy to Reduce Child Marriage
Poster Session 1: Behavior, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Risk and Youth Services
Poster Session 2: Development, Reproduction, Education, Gender and Care
Poster Session 3: Sexual and Reproductive Health, Marriage, Interventions, Media, Schools and Utilization of Services
Poster Session 4: Culture, Male Reproductive Health, and HIV/STIs
5. Lists of presentations from the conference by topic area
The handouts by topic were used at the Washington, DC meeting during roundtable discussions.
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