1998 World Population Data Sheet (Book Edition)
Population Reference Bureau
Focus: Global
Highlights adolescent childbearing and its implications for future population growth. Provides latest population estimates, projections, and other key indicators for 200 countries, including births, deaths, natural increase, infant mortality, total fertility, life expectancy, urban population, contraceptive use, GNP per capita, land area, and population per square mile.
Free to delegates, NGO participants, developing-country audiences, and USAID cooperating agencies; $3.50 each for all others. English, French, and Spanish; 1998; 12 pages (book edition), also available in wallchart format.
Access to Reproductive Health Services: Participatory Research with Ugandan Adolescents
Pacific Institute for Women's Health
Focus: Africa
Final report of a research project conducted in Uganda using qualitative research involving adolescents in expressing their own realities. The rich data collected through peer discussion groups is presented and discussed in this report.
Free to developing-country audiences; $12 for all others. English; December 1997; 79 pages.
Adolescent Reproductive Health, Network
Family Health International
Focus: Global
Young men and women worldwide are especially vulnerable to reproductive health problems, including early or unplanned pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections. Research-based articles discuss adolescent reproductive health, sex education, contraceptive methods for adolescents, gender issues, and psychosocial factors to consider in programs serving adolescents.
Free to delegates, NGO participants, developing-country audiences, and USAID cooperating agencies; $5 for all others. English, French, and Spanish; 1997; 32 pages. (Also addresses: Reproductive Health/Family Planning; Reproductive Rights/Human Rights)
Adolescent Reproductive Health in Ethiopia: An Investigation of Needs, Current Policies, and Programs. Executive Summary
Pacific Institute for Women's Health
Focus: Africa
Executive summary of the final report of a needs assessment conducted in 1995 concerning adolescent reproductive health needs, policies, and programs in Ethiopia. It presents findings as well as recommendations to guide future programs and research efforts.
Free to developing-country audiences; $5 for all others. English; February 1995; 8 pages.
Adolescent Reproductive Rights: Laws and Policies to Improve Their Health and Lives
Center for Reproductive Law and Policy
Focus: Global
The ICPD Programme of Action focused on the many issues confronting the world community with respect to the reproductive rights of adolescent women. This fact sheet links the Programme of Action's provisions with a statutory or policy reform best practice undertaken in southern countries as they relate to adolescents.
Cost is $2; limited number free to NGOs in developing countries. English; December 1998; 15 pages.
Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Behavior: Evidence from India
International Center for Research on Women
Focus: India
This paper documents the existing research on sexual and reproductive behavior, explores the knowledge and attitudes among this population in India, and makes program and research recommendations related to adolescent reproductive health in India.
Free to developing-country organizations; $5.50 for all others. English; 1996; 35 pages.
The Costs of Adolescent Childbearing in Latin America and the Caribbean
International Center for Research on Women
Focus: Latin America, Caribbean
The four studies reported here explore the consequences of adolescent childbearing for mothers' economic and social opportunities and the well-being of their first-born children.
Free to developing-country organizations; $4 for all others. English; 1997; 43 pages.
Educating Girls: Gender Gaps and Gains
Population Action International
Focus: Global
Measures the gender gap in education, and assesses progress in narrowing the gap in over 100 countries over the last decade. Identifies investments countries need to make to close the gap by 2005.
Cost is $6. English, French, and Spanish; October 1998; 1 page.
Female Genital Mutilation: A Human Rights Analysis. A Practical Guide to Worldwide Laws & Policies
Center for Reproductive Law and Policy and RAINBOW (Research, Action and Information Network for the Bodily Integrity of Women)
Focus: Africa, Europe, North America
This book places the practice of female genital mutilation in a human rights and legal framework. It makes specific recommendations for action by governments, the international community, and NGOs to eliminate the practice.
Cost is $18.95; limited number free to NGOs in developing countries. English; 1999; 100 pages. (Also addresses: Reproductive Health/Family Planning; Reproductive Rights/Human Rights)
Identifying the Intersection: Adolescence, Unwanted Pregnancy, HIV/AIDS, and Unsafe Abortion
Ipas
Focus: Global
This policy monograph explores the special risks that adolescents face in health issues related to unwanted pregnancies, unsafe abortions, and HIV/AIDS. These three issues are traditionally overlooked by mainstream family planning and public health approaches. Based on a literature review and programmatic examples, the monograph poses critical research questions and proposes a health systems research agenda to address these complex interactive issues.
Free of charge. English, Spanish, and Portuguese; 1997 (English version) and 1999 (Spanish and Portuguese); 20 pages.
Information Handbook for Youth
Family Care International and the Family Planning Association of Kenya
Focus: Anglophone Africa
Comprehensive handbook contains factual information on sexuality and reproductive health and offers practical suggestions for young people about how to cope with social pressures as they relate to reproductive health. Draws on personal experiences shared by contributors in Anglophone Africa.
Cost to be determined. English; 1999; number of pages to be determined.
Insights from Adolescent Project Experience 1992 to 1997
Pathfinder International
Focus: Global
A review of Pathfinder International's adolescent reproductive health projects from 1992 to 1997. Includes lessons learned and global and project-specific data.
Free of charge. English; 1998; 49 pages.
Into a New World: Young Women's Sexual and Reproductive Lives
The Alan Guttmacher Institute
Focus: Global
Brings together comparable information from 53 developing and developed countries -- representing nearly 75 percent of the world's population. Easy-to-read charts and extensive appendix tables present the latest information on the context of young people's lives; the timing of sex and marriage; early childbearing; contraceptive knowledge and practices; and exposure to reproductive health risks.
The full report is free to delegates, $30 for industrialized countries, and $10 for developing countries; an executive summary is free for the first copy and $1 for additional copies. English; 1998; 56 pages. (A six-page executive summary will be published in 1999 in Bahasa, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish)
Meeting Reproductive Health Needs of Refugee Adolescents in Kigoma Region of Tanzania
The Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children
Focus: Tanzania
A detailed description of the Tanzania Red Cross Society's project plan to address adolescent reproductive health for refugees in the Kigoma region of Tanzania.
Free of charge. English; 1998; 7 pages. (Also addresses: Reproductive Health in Emergency Situations)
Reaching Young People Worldwide: Lessons Learned from Communication Projects, 1986-1995
Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs
Focus: Global
A review of CCP projects dealing with youth.
Free to developing-country audiences; $3 for all others. English; October 1995; 80 pages. (Also addresses: Reproductive Health/Family Planning)
Reducing the Risk: Connections That Make a Difference in the Lives of Youth
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Focus: United States
A narrative description and chartbook of research findings from a 1996 national survey of youth ages 12-18, funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The publication presents findings from young people, their friends, their families, their schools, and their communities and points out the important connections that protect them from harm.
Free of charge. English; August 1997; 40 pages.
Reproductive Health of Young Adults: Contraception, Pregnancy, and Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Family Health International and the FOCUS on Young Adults Project of Pathfinder International
Focus: Global
This research-based training module is part of a series entitled Contraceptive Technology Updates, developed to meet the continuing educational needs of family planning practitioners, physicians, nurses, counselors, and policymakers in developing countries. It includes a presentation narrative, paper copies of slides for overheads, audience handouts, and scientific references.
Free to delegates, NGO participants, and developing-country audiences; $15 for all others. English, French, and Spanish; 1998; 270 pages. (Also addresses: Reproductive Health/Family Planning; Reproductive Rights/Human Rights)
The Sexual Practices of Adolescent Virgins: Genital Sexual Activities of High School Students Who Have Never Had Vaginal Intercourse
Population Matters Program, RAND
Focus: United States
The purpose of this study was to determine whether high school-age virgins engage in sexual practices that can transmit sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. Data were collected from an anonymous self-administered survey of 2,026 urban students in 9th through 12th grades.
English; 1996; 7 pages.
SIDA: Informe especial -- El VIH y los jóvenes: Una generación en peligro?
Panos Institute
Focus: Central America
HIV and teenagers in Central America.
Free of charge; Spanish; October 1998; 11 pages.
Students' Acquisition and Use of School Condoms in a High School Condom Availability Program
Population Matters Program, RAND
Focus: United States
Describes the impact of a condom availability program located in an urban high school that serves a racially and socioeconomically diverse community in Los Angeles County.
English; 1997; 5 pages.
Summary: Adolescent Family Life Research Projects
Office of Population Affairs, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Focus: United States
This document contains summaries of various research projects involving adolescent sexual behavior, adoption, adolescent pregnancy services, and adolescent pregnancy and planning. Contains information about the principal investigator of each project.
Free of charge. English; 1997; 18 pages.
Trends in Sexual Risk Behaviors Among High School Students -- United States, 1991-1997
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Focus: United States
Each year, approximately 3 million cases of sexually transmitted infections occur among teenagers, and approximately 1 million become pregnant.
Free of charge; available online at: ftp://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Publications/mmwr/wk/mm4736.pdf. English; 1998.
Trends in the Well-Being of America's Children and Youth, 1997 Edition
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Focus: United States
This is the second edition of an annual report from the Department of Health and Human Services on trends in the well-being of America's children and youth. The report presents the most recent and reliable estimates on more than 80 indicators of well-being.
Free of charge; available online at: http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/hsp/97trends/intro-web.htm#INTRODUCTION. English; 1997.
The Uncharted Passage: Girls' Adolescence in the Developing World
Population Council
Focus: Developing countries
This book documents and examines the social pressures deeply rooted in family systems, the peer relationships, and the social construction of gender that affect adolescent sexual initiation and fertility in the developing world.
Free to developing-country audiences. English; 1998; number of pages to be determined.
The Unfinished Transition
Population Council
Focus: Developing countries
This paper explores issues of gender equity as measures to promote fertility decline. Topics include: improving girls' educational attainment; creating more meaningful roles, services, and opportunities for adolescent girls; drawing men into more effective parenting partnerships; and supporting women's livelihoods.
Single copies are free. English; 1996; 20 pages.
Vulnerability and Opportunity: Adolescents and HIV/AIDS in the Developing World
International Center for Research on Women
Focus: Global
Findings from the Women and AIDS Research Program demonstrate that young women are at risk of unintended pregnancy, STIs, including HIV, because of unprotected sexual activity. But the data also reveal that cultural and socioeconomic factors restrict their ability to adopt protective behaviors.
Free to developing-country organizations; $5.50 for all others. English; 1996; 24 pages.
Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance -- United States, 1997
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Focus: United States
The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) monitors six categories of priority health-risk behaviors among youth and young adults.
Free; available online at: ftp://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Publications/mmwr/ss/ss4703.pdf. English; 1995; 97 pages.
Youth Talk About Sexuality: A Participatory Assessment of Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in Lusaka, Zambia
CARE Zambia, Operations Research Unit
Focus: Zambia, Southern Africa
A baseline report for an operations research study testing community-based approaches for improving adolescent reproductive and sexual health. This report highlights Participatory Learning and Action findings from 10-to-19-year-olds living in peri-urban Lusaka and compares them to survey results conducted in the same areas.
The first 400 copies are available free to delegates, NGO participants, and developing-country audiences; additional copies are $4. English; September 1998; 31 pages.
Return to Table of Contents
To order materials, contact Contributing Organizations.
