Promoting Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in East and Southern Africa

Part I: Policy and Theory Informing Practice

1. Public Policy: A tool to promote adolescent sexual and reproductive health
   Yogan Pillay & Alan Flisher
2. Social Cognition Models and Social Cognitive Theory: Predicting sexual and reproductive behaviour among adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa
   Leif Edvard Aarø, Herman Schaalma & Anne Nordrehaug Åstrøm
3. Health Education and the Promotion of Reproductive Health: Theory and evidence-based development and diffusion of intervention programs
   Herman Schaalma & Sylvia Kaaya
4. Ethical Dilemmas in Adolescent Reproductive Health Promotion
   Gro Th. Lie

Part II Contextual Aspects of Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health

5. From Initiation Rituals to AIDS Education: Entering adulthood at the turn of the millennium
   Graziella van den Bergh
6. Illegal Abortion among Adolescents in Dar es Salaam
   Vibeke Rasch & Margarethe Silberschmidt
7. Adolescent Sexuality and the AIDS Epidemic in Tanzania: What has gone wrong?
   Melkizedeck Leshabari, Sylvia Kaaya & Anna Kessy
8. To Risk Or Not To Risk? Is It a Question? Sexual Debut, Poverty and Vulnerability in Times of HIV: A case from Kigoma Region, Tanzania
   Graziella van den Bergh

Part III Addressing the Needs of Adolescents: Arenas for Action

9. Peer Education for Adolescent Reproductive Health: An effective method for program delivery, a powerful empowerment strategy, or neither?
   Sheri Bastien, Alan Flisher, Cathy Mathews & Knut-Inge Klepp
10. Adolescent-Friendly Health Services in Uganda
    John Arube-Wani, Jessica Jitta & Lillian Mpabulungi
11. Quality of Care: Assessing nurses’ and midwives’ attitudes towards adolescents with sexual and reproductive health problems
    Elisabeth Faxelid, Joyce Musandu, Irene Mushinge, Eva Nissen & Mathilde Zvinavashe

Part IV Evaluation and Review of Interventions in sub-Saharan Africa

12. Evaluating Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Interventions in Southern and Eastern Africa
    Alan Flisher, Wanjiru Mukoma & Johann Louw
13. A Systematic Review of School-Based AIDS Prevention Programmes in South Africa
    Wanjiru Mukoma & Alan Flisher

Alan J. Flisher is Professor and Head of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.

Sylvia F. Kaaya is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health at Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences in Dar es Salaam in Tanzania.

Knut-Inge Klepp is Director of the Public Health and Welfare Division of the Norwegian Directorate for Health and Social Affairs.

Extract from review by Ilene Speizer (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) in Studies in Family Planning, Volume 40 Number 3 (September 2009) pp. 258-9:

"The chapters covering the first two themes, being bound in a collection, provide an easy and appropriate tool that can be used for a course on adolescent sexual health, especially one that focuses on countries with a high revalence of HIV infection. The studies using qualitative data from Tanzania provide abundant information about adolescents’ lives and risk-taking behavior and provide useful discussion points for considering interventions to reduce young people’s risk of acquiring HIV and STIs and of experiencing unintended pregnancies."

Extract from review by Sandra Zerbo (Suffolk University, Boston) in African Studies Review (Dec 2008) Vol.51 (1) pp. 210-11:

"[T]he book is a unique attempt to advance the consciousness and promote the discussion of adolescent sexual and reproductive health, essentially by pointing out the current lack of communication among the social, political, biomedical, and policymaking fields. More important, the writers do not stop at identifying problems: they propose ways to bridge the gap between these fields in order to build partnerships through collaborative research and a participatory approach."