Navigating conflicting laws in sexual and reproductive health service provision for teenagers

Moult, Kelley; Müller, Alex

doi:10.4102/curationis.v39i1.1565

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“…For example, previous studies on age of consent laws have highlighted how a multiplicity of laws addressing age of consent to sexual intercourse, to marriage, and to accessing sexual health services results in barriers to access due to health care provider confusion about contradictory obligations for providing services, maintaining confidentiality, and mandatory reporting requirements. 68 , 69 Among the four countries covering the most number of services, Nicaragua and the Philippines covered a wide range of services in a single law specific to sexual health, however Nicaragua also covered additional services in non-specific laws. The other two countries, Bolivia and Mexico, covered most of their services in non-specific laws.…”

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Laws governing access to sexual health services and information: contents, protections, and restrictions

Ferguson,

Emoto,

Gruskin

2024

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters

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Access to sexual health services and information is critical to achieving the highest attainable standard of sexual health, and enabling legal environments are key to advancing progress in this area. In determining overall alignment with human rights standards to respect, protect, and fulfil sexual health-related rights without discrimination, there are many aspects of laws, including their specificity and content, which impact which sexual health services and information are availed, which are restricted, and for whom. To understand the nature of existing legal provisions surrounding access to sexual health services and information, we analysed the content of 40 laws in English, French, and Spanish from 18 countries for the specific sexual health services and information to which access is ensured or prohibited, and the non-discrimination provisions within these laws. Overall, there was wide variation across countries in the types of laws covering these services and the types and number of services and information ensured. Some countries covered different services through multiple laws, and most of the laws dedicated specifically to sexual health addressed only a narrow aspect of sexual health and covered a small range of services. The protected characteristics in non-discrimination provisions and the specificity of these provisions with regard to sexual health services also varied. Findings may inform national legal and policy dialogues around sexual health to identify opportunities for positive change, as well as to guide further investigation to understand the relationship between such legal provisions, the implementation of these laws within countries, and relevant sexual health outcomes.

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Laws governing access to sexual health services and information: contents, protections, and restrictions

Ferguson,

Emoto,

Gruskin

2024

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters

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Reproductive health of adolescents: problems and solutions

Simakhodskiy

Ippolitova²

2019

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Development and preservation of reproductive potential is the actual practical direction of national health care. There are presented results of the medical examination of the child population of St. Petersburg, there are noted gender-age features of somatic, urological and gynecological pathology in adolescents. The effectiveness of medical and social system of the care of adolescent reproductive health was established to manifest by the increased their interest and demand for special consultative structures, the decrease in the number of abortions and sexually transmitted infections. Primary health care activities of youth consultation specialists in conjunction with the teaching teams on moral and sexual education and shaping of healthy lifestyle provide the reduction in the level of risk sexual behavior of adolescents and the improvement of their medical activity. There was shown the necessity of the further improvement of the system of medical and social care for adolescents for the prevention of unwanted pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases, bad habits and shaping of healthy lifestyle skills.

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Medical and social reproductive health issues faced by today's schoolgirls

Solovyova

2023

Российский Вестник Гигиены

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Protection of the schoolgirls' reproductive health that often depends on many factors, one way or another associated with low awareness of the issue, is a global priority in modern society. The study was aimed to assess the factors that affect reproductive health of the school-age girls. An online questionnaire survey of 100 girls aged 15–18 aimed at detecting reproductive health problems was carried out in Moscow. The average age of menarche was 12.3 ± 1.2 years, however, there were girls, who had menarche at the age of 10 years (10%), and those, who had menarche after the age of 14 (7%), among schoolgirls. Blood spotting between periods was observed in 21% and pelvic pain in 44% of schoolgirls; 81% had severe pain. Irritability, aggression, easy crying, rapid fatigue, and faintness before and during the periods were reported by 98%; swelling, weight gain, abdominal distension, constipation, diarrhea, breast engorgement and soreness were reported by 73%; headache, vertigo, nausea, vomiting, insomnia, increased sensitivity to smell and sound were noted by 50%; high blood pressure, heart-related pain, increased heart rate, panic attacks were reported by 21%; menstrual disorders were observed in 16% of school-age girls. The study showed that 60% of schoolgirls demonstrated medium awareness, 28% showed high awareness, and 12% had insufficient knowledge about reproductive health. The schoolgirls' insufficient awareness of the reproductive health-related issues is a major medical and social challenge that can negatively affect the schoolgirls' reproductive health and cause not only various reproductive system disorders, but also reproductive losses and even infertility later in life.

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Navigating conflicting laws in sexual and reproductive health service provision for teenagers

Cited by 5 publications

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Laws governing access to sexual health services and information: contents, protections, and restrictions

Laws governing access to sexual health services and information: contents, protections, and restrictions

Reproductive health of adolescents: problems and solutions

Medical and social reproductive health issues faced by today's schoolgirls

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