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StatesPosted at: Sep 20 2018 1:30PM


Adolescent health is starting to attract the attention it deserves, and is increasingly prominent in global health initiatives. This includes the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health, areas such as mental health (young people’s mental health is the theme of 2018’s World Mental Health Day on October 10) and management of sexually transmitted infections (growing rates of infections in adolescents was much discussed at the 2018 International AIDS conference in Amsterdam).
Yet, a comprehensive approach to adolescent health is often lacking, with this critical age group very much at risk of being left behind in the development agenda.
“For a long time there has been an assumption – sustained by critical gaps in data - that adolescents are healthy. Most of them indeed are, but much less so than we used to think. Data show that the considerable gains from investments in maternal and child health programmes are not sustained in adolescence: the reduction in child mortality was not mirrored by a similar reduction in adolescent deaths,” says Dr Princess Nothemba (Nono) Simelela, WHO’s Assistant Director-General for Family, Women, Children and Adolescents.
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