Boonstra Healther D
Issues Brief (Alan Guttmacher Inst). 2007 Sep:1-6.
This In Brief, written by Heather D. Boonstra, summarizes key findings of a multiyear, multi-country study on the scope of young people's sexual and reproductive health needs in Sub-Saharan Africa. Guttmacher staff worked with 10 organizations (nine based in Africa) to gather evidence in four Sub-Saharan African countries--Burkina Faso, Ghana, Malawi and Uganda--where national surveys of 12-19-year-olds, focus groups of 14-19-year olds, in-depth interviews with 12-19-year-olds and in-depth interviews with key adults in adolescents' lives were conducted. The Guttmacher study complements a robust body of evidence on adolescents globally published in the past five years by, among others, the National Research Council, the World Bank and the World Health Organization. It is unique, however, in that it presents information gathered from adolescents themselves and that it addresses, in an integrated fashion, young people's risk of both HIV and unplanned pregnancy.
这篇由希瑟·D·布恩斯特拉撰写的《简要概述》总结了一项为期多年、多国参与的关于撒哈拉以南非洲地区年轻人性健康和生殖健康需求范围的研究的主要发现。古特马赫研究所的工作人员与10个组织（9个位于非洲）合作，在撒哈拉以南非洲的四个国家——布基纳法索、加纳、马拉维和乌干达——收集证据，在这些国家对12至19岁的青少年进行了全国性调查，对14至19岁的青少年进行了焦点小组访谈，对12至19岁的青少年进行了深入访谈，并对青少年生活中的关键成年人进行了深入访谈。古特马赫研究所的这项研究补充了过去五年里由美国国家研究委员会、世界银行和世界卫生组织等机构发表的关于全球青少年的大量证据。然而，它的独特之处在于它呈现了从青少年自身收集到的信息，并且以综合的方式探讨了年轻人感染艾滋病毒和意外怀孕的风险。
