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View all search resultsPutting young people first: Ensuring access to SRHR services
The pandemic has put young people’s access to sexual reproductive health and rights (SRHR) services at risk.
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Calls for investments in young people have increased dramatically in recent years.
But the year 2020 is proving to be a difficult, life changing year as the pandemic has exposed deep inequalities in income, access to basic services and social protection for young people.
“Young people’s access to SRH services is even more limited now,” said Heidrun Fritze, technical analyst for adolescents and youth at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Asia Pacific.
The world will celebrate International Youth Day 2020 this Aug. 12, with this year’s theme, “Youth engagement for global action”, seeking to highlight the ways in which engagement of young people at the local level is enriching national and multilateral institutions and processes.
“[It’s] a day for you, a day for me and a day for the nearly 1 billion young people aged 14 to 24 in the Asia Pacific region,” Fritze said.
Fritze made the statement while giving introductory remarks during the fourth session of the 10th Asia Pacific Conference on Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (APCRASRH10) virtual conference on Aug. 3.
The conference, titled “Young People and SRHR in the Asia Pacific”, is part of a series organized by the steering committee of APCRSHR10, UNFPA and Citizen News Service (CNS).
