1. Pre-service Education on FP and AYSRH
Session III Topic 2 Adolescent Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Adolescents, Session III Topic 2 Slide 1

2. Sexual and Reproductive Rights of Adolescents
Make decisions about their own health, body, sexual life, and identity.
Ask for and receive information about sex, contraception, and related health services.
Have access to comprehensive education on human sexuality, sexual and reproductive health, human rights, and gender equality.
Decide whether and when to have children.
Choose whether or not to marry and what type of family to create.
Have access to comprehensive and integrated sexual and reproductive health services.
Live free from rape and other violence, including forced pregnancy, forced abortion, sterilization without consent, forced marriage, or female genital mutilation/cutting.
Explain that Reproductive Rights are legal rights and freedoms relating to reproduction and reproductive health that vary amongst countries around the world. They may include things such as the right to use contraception; freedom from coerced sterilization; the right to access good-quality reproductive healthcare; the right to receive education about sexually transmitted infections, etc.
Ask students to identify sexual and reproductive rights that apply to adolescents and write answers on a flipchart.
Use the slide to discuss Sexual and Reproductive Rights of Adolescents.
Divide students into groups or pairs.
Provide each pair or group with Handout#1 on Sexual and Reproductive Rights of Adolescents. Explain that the handout includes the Sexual and Reproductive Rights defined by many different organizations, including the United Nations.
Go around the room and assign each group or pair 2-3 rights listed on the Handout.
Ask each pair or group first to identify the obstacles or barriers that might prevent each of the assigned rights from being fulfilled.
Ask students to list specific steps they can take in a clinic to remove each barrier or obstacle. Allow 20 minutes for the work.
Reconvene the larger group and ask each small group to present their list
See Session plan to discuss Sexual Reproductive Health Situation of Adolescents in the Country.
Adolescent Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Session III Topic 2 Slide 2
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Adolescents, Session III Topic 2 Slide 2