Is it necessary to take care of the reproductive health of adolescents distinctively?
Yes, the reproductive health needs of adolescents as a group have been ignored since long. More than half of the world’s people are below age 25 and about a third are between 10 and 24 years of age. These young people are not provided with authentic and accurate knowledge regarding heir physical and emotional development, particularly during the period of adolescence when sexual development starts in them. In the absence of any authentic source to make them available accurate information, they fall prey to those sources, which create many myths and misconceptions among them. The conflicting messages that they receive from mass media make their confusion worse confounded. Even the reproductive health care services are oriented towards ignoring the needs of adolescents. It is therefore, necessary to respond to the special reproductive health needs of adolescents. The first and foremost need is to provide them with authentic and accurate knowledge about their process of growing up – physi
