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Rethinking Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights for Young Women in Southern Africa: A Critical Perspective book cover

1st Edition

Rethinking Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights for Young Women in Southern Africa A Critical Perspective

By Tamaryn Crankshaw, Jane Freedman, Carolien Aantjes, Nana K. Poku Copyright 2025
140 Pages
by Routledge

140 Pages
by Routledge

140 Pages
by Routledge
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This important book provides a critical examination of the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of young women and girls in Southern Africa, examining the ways in which current policies and programmes aimed at improving SRHR often fail to reach the most marginalised populations. Addressing key regional challenges such as high rates of HIV, unintended pregnancies, unsafe abortions,... Read more

Acknowledgements

1: Introduction

2: Understanding and Identifying Vulnerability in SRHR research and policy

3: Understanding the Vulnerabilities of Sexual-Economic Exchange

4: Going beyond HIV: Shifting the Dialogue from Risk to Rights

5: Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: The Most Pressing Challenge for SRHR?

6: Conclusion: Vulnerability and Climate Change

Index

Biography

Tamaryn L. Crankshaw is a senior research fellow and leads the SRHR Programme at the Health Economics and HIV and AIDS Research Division (HEARD) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Jane Freedman is a Professor at the Université of Paris 8, France, and Director of the Paris Centre for Sociological and Political Research (CRESPPA).

Carolien Aantjes is a senior research fellow at HEARD at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and a senior researcher in the Access to Justice research group of the Inholland University of Applied Sciences in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Nana K. Poku is the Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), South Africa, and Executive Director at the Health Economics and HIV and AIDS Research Division (HEARD) at UKZN.

 

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