New book: Promoting Adolescent Health in Eastern and Southern Africa edited by Knut-Inge Klepp, Alan J Flisher and Sylvia Kaaya
Issued by The Nordic Africa Institute 2008, 344 pages pris 320 SEK (appr. 35 Euro)
This book will be launched in a seminar with the editors in Oslo, Norway, on Thursday, 24th Januari 12.00-14.30 (venue: Auditoriet, Fredrik Holsts Hus, Ullevål Universitetssykehus (Kirkeveien 166)
More information about the book and the launch
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About the book:
In Africa, as in many parts of the world, adolescent reproductive health is a controversial issue for policy makers and programme planners. Adolescents are particularly vulnerable to HIV and AIDS and to a host of other problems such as sexually transmitted infection, unwanted pregnancy, unsafe abortions, sexual abuse, female genital mutilation and unsafe circumcision.
Yet many countries do not have adolescent health policies in place and much remains to be done to ensure that adolescents can access appropriate sexual and reproductive health services.
The authors of this volume present new perspectives and strategies to promote adolescent sexual and reproductive health. In particular, they make a unique attempt to bring together social and biomedical science and to disseminate concrete empirical evidence from existing programmes, carefully analysing what works and what does not at the local level.
ALAN J. FLISHER is Professor and Head of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, and Professor II at the Research Centre for Health Promotion at the University of Bergen in Norway.
SYLVIA F. KAAYA is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences in Dar es Salaam in Tanzania.
KNUT-INGE KLEPP is Professor and Head of the Centre for Prevention of Global Infections at the University of Oslo and Director of the Public Health and Welfare Division of the Norwegian Directorate for Health and Social Affairs.
From the contents
Part I: Policy and Theory Informing Practice
1. Public Policy: A tool to promote adolescent sexual and reproductive health (Yogan Pillay & Alan Flisher)
2. Social Cognition Models and Social Cognitive Theory: Predicting sexual and reproductive behaviour among adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa (Leif Edvard Aarø, Herman Schaalma & Anne Nordrehaug Åstrøm)
3. Health Education and the Promotion of Reproductive Health: Theory and evidence-based development and diffusion of intervention programs (Herman Schaalma & Sylvia Kaaya)
4. Ethical Dilemmas in Adolescent Reproductive Health Promotion (Gro Th. Lie)
Part II Contextual Aspects of Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
5. From Initiation Rituals to AIDS Education: Entering adulthood at the turn of the millennium (Graziella van den Bergh)
6. Illegal Abortion among Adolescents in Dar es Salaam (Vibeke Rasch & Margarethe Silberschmidt)
7. Adolescent Sexuality and the AIDS Epidemic in Tanzania: What has gone wrong? (Melkizedeck Leshabari, Sylvia Kaaya & Anna Kessy)
8. To Risk Or Not To Risk? Is It a Question? Sexual Debut, Poverty and Vulnerability in Times of HIV: A case from Kigoma Region, Tanzania (Graziella van den Bergh)
Part III Addressing the Needs of Adolescents: Arenas for Action
9. Peer Education for Adolescent Reproductive Health: An effective method for program delivery, a powerful empowerment strategy, or neither? (Sheri Bastien, Alan Flisher, Cathy Mathews & Knut-Inge Klepp)
10. Adolescent-Friendly Health Services in Uganda (John Arube-Wani, Jessica Jitta & Lillian Mpabulungi)
11. Quality of Care: Assessing nurses and midwives attitudes towards adolescents with sexual and reproductive health problems (Elisabeth Faxelid, Joyce Musandu, Irene Mushinge, Eva Nissen & Mathilde Zvinavashe)
Part IV Evaluation and Review of Interventions in sub-Saharan Africa
12. Evaluating Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Interventions in Southern and Eastern Africa (Alan Flisher, Wanjiru Mukoma & Johann Louw)
13. A Systematic Review of School-Based AIDS Prevention Programmes in South Africa (Wanjiru Mukoma & Alan Flisher)
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