The Asia Pacific Conference on Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights, or APCRSHR, is a biannual gathering of civil society, young people, academia, government officlals, media, the private sector and development partners that share concerns around sexual and reproductive health and rights across the region.
The 8th APCRSHR will focus on generating new paradigms and strategies for action to boost reproductive and sexual health and rights across Asia and the Pacific.
Phnom Penh, Cambodia: More than a thousand youth gathered at the annual celebration event of the International Youth Day on 12 August 2015 and inspired their peers to talk openly about sexual and reproductive health issues with their parents and siblings.
The first ever World Contraception Day was organized in Cambodia by a group of young people in order to raise awareness about teenage pregnancy and correct misconceptions about the use of contraceptives and family planning among young people. A series of activities, both off-line and online, were held, including a flash mob dance, a concert, quiz, press conference, distribution of leaflets and IEC materials, short clips from celebrities, posts on the facebook page and workshops.
No. of pages : 72
Publication date : 18/02/2016
Author : UNFPA WCARO
This annual report captures the actions and results of the UNFPA West and Central Africa Regional Office and the 23 Country Offices in the region. It clarifies how we work together to ensure every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled. Our mission is to build the foundations for change by enabling girls and mothers to make choices. We want them to be able to choose when to marry, choose when to give birth and choose how many children they want.
The United Nations Population Fund — UNFPA — is the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency in Nepal. Globally it has a mission to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe, and every young person’s potential is fulfilled.
No. of pages : 126
Publisher : UNFPA
Publication date : 17/11/2014
Author : UNFPA
Young people matter. They matter because an unprecedented 1.8 billion youth are alive today, and because they are the shapers and leaders of our global future. They matter because they have inherent human rights that must be fulfilled. Yet, in a world of adult concerns, young people are often overlooked. This tendency cries out for urgent correction, because it imperils youth as well as economies and societies at large.
BANGKOK (UNESCO/UNFPA news release) – Nearly 100 delegates from 18 Asia-Pacific countries met here this week to discuss how to provide more and better sexuality education for the region’s millions of adolescent girls and boys.
Today, on World AIDS Day, I join every person around the world who believes the next generation should be free of HIV and AIDS.
More than 30 years into the epidemic, we have moved beyond the early devastation wreaked by AIDS and scored many successes.
Over the past three years, the rate of new HIV infections has dropped by 13 per cent.
Of the estimated 35 million people living with HIV in the world, over 13 million are now receiving treatment.
AIDS-related deaths are at their lowest level since the peak in 2005, down by 35 per cent.
