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Adolescent and youth health Reproductive rights Sexual health and wellbeing

Verbetering van de seksuele en reproductieve gezondheid van adolescenten in Oeganda door een participatieve ouder-kind communicatie interventie.

Oeganda heeft een erg jonge bevolking en de uitkomsten van seksuele en reproductieve gezondheid (SRG) - waaronder tienerzwangerschappen en HIV prevalentie – behoren nog steeds tot de armste ter wereld.

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Interpersonal violence Reproductive rights

Evaluatie van het bestaande hulpverleningslandschap inzake hulp- en dienstverlening aan plegers en potentiële plegers van seksueel grensoverschrijdend gedrag

Seksueel geweld is belangrijk maatschappelijk probleem dat de publieke gezondheid en het welzijn hypothekeert. Recent onderzoek in de Belgische populatie toonde aan dat alle genders en alle leeftijdsgroepen kwetsbaar zijn voor seksueel geweld.

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Interpersonal violence Reproductive rights Gender Sexual health and wellbeing

UN-MENAMAIS: Een beter begrip van de mechanismes, aard, omvang en impact van seksueel geweld in België

Het UN-MENAMAIS onderzoeksproject streeft naar een beter begrip van de mechanismes, aard, omvang en impact van seksueel geweld in België.

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HIV & AIDS Seksueel overdraagbare aandoeningen (soa's) Adolescent and youth health Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Interpersonal violence Mother and child health Reproductive rights Family planning and contraception Gender Migrant health Policy analysis

Academisch netwerk voor seksuele en reproductieve gezondheid en rechten beleid (ANSER)

Universiteit Gent richtte het ANSER (Academic Network for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Policy) op. Het netwerk wordt internationaal gedragen door tientallen instellingen.

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Adolescent and youth health Reproductive rights

Mitigating adverse sexual and reproductive health outcomes through a comprehensive primary school sexuality education program in South-Western Uganda

Uganda’s adolescents experience unfavourable sexual and reproductive health (SRH) outcomes. Young people (10-24 years) constitute over 33.5% of Uganda’s population, with about 47% below the age of 15. Nevertheless, this age group carries the highest disease burden, particularly in the SRH area.

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HIV & AIDS Seksueel overdraagbare aandoeningen (soa's) Mother and child health Reproductive rights

Institutional University Cooperation with University Eduardo Mondlane

In the context of the University Development Cooperation, the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (UEM), Mozambique, was selected as a partner institution of the VLIR-UDC-programme ‘Institutional University Cooperation’. The implementation of the Partner Programme with UEM (2008-2013) is coordinated by professor Marleen Temmerman. The programme is being implemented inter-university and has as central theme ‘Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS’. It comprises, in this first phase, 8 projects. Five projects address a sub-theme of the central theme and 3 projects will strengthen capacity in specific areas.

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HIV & AIDS Seksueel overdraagbare aandoeningen (soa's) Health system research Reproductive rights

Diagonal Interventions to Fast Forward Enhanced Reproductive Health (DIFFER)

The DIFFER project aims at improving access to sexual and reproductive health for the most vulnerable by a better linkage between interventions targeted at most-at-risk populations, in particular female sex workers, and the general reproductive health services. It will be implemented at four sites in Kenya (Mombasa), Mozambique (Tete), South Africa (Durban) and India (Mysore).

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HIV & AIDS Adolescent and youth health Reproductive rights

ELIMIKA - Adolescents and youth taking control of their HIV treatment issues, the case of Mombasa, Kenya

Globally, over 2.1 million adolescents aged 10–19 and 5 million young people aged 15–24 are living with HIV. As a result of greater availability of antiretroviral (ARV) therapy, many infants born with HIV can now survive into adolescence.

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HIV & AIDS Seksueel overdraagbare aandoeningen (soa's) Health system research Reproductive rights

Improved Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Services for Most at Risk Populations in Tete, Mozambique (Tete-MARP)

The Tete-MARP project aims at improving HIV prevention and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) among female sex workers (FSW) in the Tete-Moatize area in Mozambique. The project uses an HIV combination prevention approach, combining behavioural, biological and structural interventions, integrates HIV services with services for other SRHR topics and targets male clients of FSW for behaviour change.

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Adolescent and youth health Reproductive rights

CERCA II: A post-hoc process analysis of the CERCA intervention

The FP7-funded intervention research project CERCA (Community-Embedded Reproductive health Care for Adolescents in Latin-America) aimed to improve global knowledge about how health systems could be more responsive to the changing sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs of adolescents.

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Adolescent and youth health Reproductive rights

Evaluation holistic sexuality education

Holistic sexuality education (HSE) is a new concept in sexuality education (SE). Since it differs from other types of SE in a number of important respects, strategies developed for the evaluation of the latter are not necessarily applicable to HSE.

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Adolescent and youth health Reproductive rights

Attitudes towards holebisexuality among adolescents living and/or studying in Ghent

To obtain knowledge and insight that contributes to the development of an intervention which enables adolescents (14 to 18 years old) – living and/or studying in Ghent - to discuss sexual diversity and which adds to a positive change in attitudes towards holebisexuality.

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