BerlinInstitute - Africa’s Future Is Young! - Young People’s Priorities for Their Reproductive

For SRHR, girls’ education, job training for example, it is not uncommon for queer or young women and support in promoting HIV-positive people to be left in the waiting employment room of a health clinic for long periods, while young people with disabilities may not Promote the inclusion of marginalised even be able to enter the clinic as a result of young people in projects and funding physical b. [...] In Mauritania, in this age group declines.21 A review of regions of Africa have sexual intercourse for less than 10 percent of young people are regional data and statistics reveals the the first time between the ages of 16 and educated on this subject, compared to almost current status of sexual and reproductive 20, and in most countries before the age two in three young people in Rwanda.28 health. [...] The procedure causes through antiretroviral therapy (ART) in many impact on the physical and mental health of both short-term and long-term physical and countries in recent years, children below women and their children, both in the short psychological damage.72 the age of 15 with HIV are considerably less and long term. [...] The restrictive political and legal The lack of information about sexually Young LGBTQI+ People environment has resulted in the exclusion transmitted infections (STIs) and the limited of young queer people from SRHR projects availability of pre-exposure prophylaxis Our interviewees reported that the Ugandan and discrimination against LGBTQI+ (PrEP) are leading to an increase in HIV government’s 20. [...] While there are estimates children under the age of 18 have a disability, with disabilities and assume that they are at the UN level of the size of the and in Western and Central Africa it is 15 not sexually active.