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Risky sexual behaviours among young people in sub-Saharan Africa: how can parents use the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion for change?
Despite progress made in the treatment of HIV and AIDS by making available the antiretroviral treatment in Africa, youth are still struggling with inadequate knowledge, a negative attitude towards AIDS and high-risk sexual behaviour. All of these are compounded by a lack of open communication betwee...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6691924/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31271105 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17290376.2019.1636710 |
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author | Tarkang, Elvis Pencille, Lilian Amu, Hubert Komesour, Joyce Lutala, Prosper |
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description | Despite progress made in the treatment of HIV and AIDS by making available the antiretroviral treatment in Africa, youth are still struggling with inadequate knowledge, a negative attitude towards AIDS and high-risk sexual behaviour. All of these are compounded by a lack of open communication between parents and youths which among others, which impedes on the control of the pandemic in this vulnerable group. Building on ‘Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion’ as one way of breaking all barriers in this communication, we suggest keys points in five different domains of this framework namely: building healthy public policies, creating a supportive environment, strengthening community action, developing personal skills, and reorienting the health services. |
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spelling | pubmed-66919242019-08-23 Risky sexual behaviours among young people in sub-Saharan Africa: how can parents use the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion for change? Tarkang, Elvis Pencille, Lilian Amu, Hubert Komesour, Joyce Lutala, Prosper SAHARA J Comment Despite progress made in the treatment of HIV and AIDS by making available the antiretroviral treatment in Africa, youth are still struggling with inadequate knowledge, a negative attitude towards AIDS and high-risk sexual behaviour. All of these are compounded by a lack of open communication between parents and youths which among others, which impedes on the control of the pandemic in this vulnerable group. Building on ‘Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion’ as one way of breaking all barriers in this communication, we suggest keys points in five different domains of this framework namely: building healthy public policies, creating a supportive environment, strengthening community action, developing personal skills, and reorienting the health services. Taylor & Francis 2019-07-04 /pmc/articles/PMC6691924/ /pubmed/31271105 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17290376.2019.1636710 Text en © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Comment Tarkang, Elvis Pencille, Lilian Amu, Hubert Komesour, Joyce Lutala, Prosper Risky sexual behaviours among young people in sub-Saharan Africa: how can parents use the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion for change? |
title | Risky sexual behaviours among young people in sub-Saharan Africa: how can parents use the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion for change? |
title_full | Risky sexual behaviours among young people in sub-Saharan Africa: how can parents use the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion for change? |
title_fullStr | Risky sexual behaviours among young people in sub-Saharan Africa: how can parents use the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion for change? |
title_full_unstemmed | Risky sexual behaviours among young people in sub-Saharan Africa: how can parents use the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion for change? |
title_short | Risky sexual behaviours among young people in sub-Saharan Africa: how can parents use the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion for change? |
title_sort | risky sexual behaviours among young people in sub-saharan africa: how can parents use the ottawa charter for health promotion for change? |
topic | Comment |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6691924/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31271105 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17290376.2019.1636710 |
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