scholarly journals Early sexual relationships and age mixing among older adolescents living in an urban slum in Ghana

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-86
Author(s):  
Eugene Kofuor Maafo Darteh
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Urban Slum ◽  
Sexual Relationships ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Older Adolescents ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Risky Behaviours ◽  
Rural Context ◽  
Educational Campaigns

Understanding Adolescents’ sexual and reproductive health behaviour is paramount if the attainment of improved health outcomes and ultimately, the realisation of Sustainable Development Goals are to be achieved. However, the extant literature appears to be disproportionately focused on adolescents in the rural context. Using both qualitative and quantitative data collected from adolescents aged 15-19 years living in Kwesimintsim zongo – an urban slum, this paper attempts to examine early sexual relationships and age mixing among older adolescents. The results point to the presence of risky sexual behaviour among the respondents. Specifically it was found that about a fifth of the respondents were engaged in both early sexual relationships and age mixing. These findings provide useful insight on urban adolescents and their sexual reproductive health in Ghana and it is recommended that preventive measures such as educational campaigns be deployed to dissuade adolescents from engaging in these risky behaviours whose resultant social, psychological and economic costs affect the wider society.

Accepted Abstracts of the PSRH Conference 2017 Vanuatu

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (5) ◽  
pp. 245
Author(s):  
Theresa Mittemeier
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Goals

<p>The theme of the 12th Conference:  <strong><em>Reproductive Health and the Sustainable Development Goals – catalysts for accelerating progress</em></strong></p><p>Held at the Vanuatu Convention Centre, 13-18 July 2017.</p><p> </p>

scholarly journals Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals leads to lower world population growth

2016 ◽  
Vol 113 (50) ◽  
pp. 14294-14299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guy J. Abel ◽  
Bilal Barakat ◽  
Samir KC ◽  
Wolfgang Lutz
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Population Projections ◽  
Sensitivity Analyses ◽  
World Population ◽  
World Population Growth ◽  
Mortality Differentials ◽  
Development Goals

Here we show the extent to which the expected world population growth could be lowered by successfully implementing the recently agreed-upon Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs include specific quantitative targets on mortality, reproductive health, and education for all girls by 2030, measures that will directly and indirectly affect future demographic trends. Based on a multidimensional model of population dynamics that stratifies national populations by age, sex, and level of education with educational fertility and mortality differentials, we translate these goals into SDG population scenarios, resulting in population sizes between 8.2 and 8.7 billion in 2100. Because these results lie outside the 95% prediction range given by the 2015 United Nations probabilistic population projections, we complement the study with sensitivity analyses of these projections that suggest that those prediction intervals are too narrow because of uncertainty in baseline data, conservative assumptions on correlations, and the possibility of new policies influencing these trends. Although the analysis presented here rests on several assumptions about the implementation of the SDGs and the persistence of educational, fertility, and mortality differentials, it quantitatively illustrates the view that demography is not destiny and that policies can make a decisive difference. In particular, advances in female education and reproductive health can contribute greatly to reducing world population growth.

scholarly journals Family Planning 2020 and Nepal’s Pledge

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Archana Amatya ◽  
Ganesh Dangal
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Family Planning ◽  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Sexual And Reproductive Health ◽  
Global Partnership ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Women And Girls

Family planning 2020 is a global partnership which hasbeen started after the 2012 London meeting on Familyplanning (FP) with the aim of improving the FP servicesto women and girls in the poorest countries.Achieving the FP2020 goal is critical to ensuring universal accessto sexual and reproductive health and rights by 2030 aspart of Sustainable Development Goals.

Migrant women and SDGs: Access to sexual and reproductive health services in Japan

Impact ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (7) ◽  
pp. 62-63
Author(s):  
Masako Tanaka
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Sexual And Reproductive Health ◽  
Global Studies ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Reproductive Health Services ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Development Goals

Masako Tanaka is a researcher based within the Faculty of Global Studies at Sophia University in Japan. Her work is focused on ensuring that women are given access to sexual and reproductive health services in Japan. Importantly, part of her studies are focused on migrants and including them in these considerations in a bid to uphold one of the most important aspects of the Sustainable Development Goals: that no one is left behind.

scholarly journals Governance for Sustainability of Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Schemes (RWSS): Case from NAPA WASH

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 26-40
Author(s):  
Keshab Prasad Adhikari
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
The Other ◽  
Water And Sanitation ◽  
Priority Ranking ◽  
Rural Water ◽  
The Status ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Rural Context ◽  
Operation And Management

Water and sanitation are taken at the heart of achieving a number of goals and critical targets of sustainable development goals. But achieving sustained water and sanitation service in a rural context is problematic from the viewpoint of technical, financial, environmental, and social, and governance aspects of functionality. Therefore, good governance in the operation and management of rural water and sanitation schemes are a key component to determine the other aspects of functioning and longer-term sustainability. The study sees the working of five indicators of functionality, five layers of priority ranking indicators, four service indicators of quantity, accessibility, reliability, and quality (QARQ), and ten indicators of assessing governance level sustainability. In all aspects of assessment, most RWSS found to stand at the level of partial sustainability. This urged for giving higher priority to upgrading such schemes in the status of full sustainability.

scholarly journals Migrant women and SDGs: Access to sexual and reproductive health services in Japan

Impact ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (9) ◽  
pp. 38-39
Author(s):  
Masako Tanaka
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Sexual And Reproductive Health ◽  
Global Studies ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Reproductive Health Services ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Development Goals

Masako Tanaka is a researcher based within the Faculty of Global Studies at Sophia University in Japan. Her work is focused on ensuring that women are given access to sexual and reproductive health services in Japan. Importantly, part of her studies are focused on migrants and including them in these considerations in a bid to uphold one of the most important aspects of the Sustainable Development Goals: that no one is left behind.

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