Gender-transformative approaches to address unmet adolescent mental, sexual and reproductive health needs in Ghana, Niger and Burkina Faso

Research Project

Year

2022

Author/s

IDRC

CONTRIBUTING ORGANISATION/PUBLICATION

IDRC

SUMMARY

Gender and other social norms influence how health providers and community members perceive appropriate and inappropriate behaviours for adolescents. These norms carry associated values and perspectives on masculinity and femininity as they pertain to how adolescents decide on their mental, sexual, and reproductive health needs and concerns. This project will examine these pressing, and largely unmet, adolescent health demands in Niger, Burkina Faso, and Ghana.

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