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National
Workshop on Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health
A National Workshop on Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health
(ARSH) was organized at the National Institute of Health and Family Welfare
in New Delhi on 23-24 July 2009. Representatives from more than 30 states
participated in the workshop organised by the Ministry of Health and Family
Welfare with support of WHO.
The objectives of the workshop were to review the progress in
implementation of ARSH strategy across the states; explore opportunities for
convergence at the policy and programme levels; and plan the way forward for
scaling up implementation of ARSH as an important component of RCH-II.
Mr A M Prasad, Joint Secretary, MOHFW, in his keynote address
highlighted that adolescence is a sensitive and important phase in an
individual's life and a multidisciplinary approach is needed to both
understand and solve adolescent’s problems. The adolescents constitute nearly
22 per cent of India's population.
During the two-day deliberations officials from the states, Ministry
of Women and Child Development, NCERT, and the Ministry of Human Resource
Development shared their success models and discussed issues related to
effective implementation of ARSH.
The document “Reproductive
and Sexual Health of Young People in India – Secondary Analysis of data from
National Family Health Surveys of India” was released during the national
workshop. The document provides national and state level age-disaggregated
data that will assist in focused planning and monitoring.
Recommendations
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