Sexual and reproductive health needs of vulnerable youth in Myanmar.

A cross-sectional survey of 56 youth, using participatory research methods, was conducted with the objective to identify the sexual and reproductive health needs among vulnerable youth in Pyin Oo Lwin town in terms of their livelihoods, perceptions about health and health risks, sex practices, perceived health information needs and preferred channels for health information, and visions for their future generation. The results indicated that a majority of young people of both sexes were deficient in knowledge of the locations and functions of reproductive organs. The majority of respondents of both sexes said that their main health concern was AIDS. Pre-marital sex among youth, 16-20 years of age, was identified in our study. Malaria and AIDS were mentioned as information needed by young people. TV and magazines/journals were prioritized as preferred channels of disseminating health messages. Almost all reported that education was the one thing that they wanted for their own children.

Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) care and its implementation by IMA.

Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) is extended maternal child health of family welfare or safe motherhood or child survival and safe motherhood programme. Unless IMA members take up implementation of RCH programme, population stabilisation in India will remain unfulfilled.

Salud reproductiva en adolescentes escolares: conocimientos, actitudes y conductas en ambos sexos en una comuna de Santiago de Chile / Reproductive health in school adolescents: knowledge, actitud and behaviour in both sexs in a community at Santiago de Chile

Nine hundred forty eight teenagers (600 female) from a public school of the poorest communities of Santiago were surveyed about knowledge and practice on sexuality and reproductive health. Twenty four percent of females and 40 percent of males did not talk about their problems at home, instead they talked preferentially with their friends. Half of the sample attributed a risk of pregnancy to the first sexual intercourse; 67 percent did not know the infertile phase of the menstrual cycle and 20 percent did not identify 2 sexually transmitted diseases. Sixty percent considered rhyth technique as a safe fertility control method, 60 percent of males and 50 percent females considered masturbation as risk, 57 percent of males and 49 percent of females estimated that condoms could be reused and between 5 and 16 percent of the sample correctly identified AIDS modes of transmission. Fifty percent had a couple and 23 percent of males and 17 percent of females had a sexual intercourse in the last six months; of these, 45 percent of women and 27 percent of men used a contraceptive method. Four percent of women and 6 percent of men became involved in a pregnancy and 57 percent of these terminated in abortions. It is concluded that knowledge about sexuallity and reproductive biology among low income teenagers is scanty