There are innovators from across the region who are trying to tackle the taboos, break the silence and deal with the fall out, be it getting sexuality education in schools or providing sexual and reproductive health services for young people, or tackling sexual violence, or trying to find space in society for those cross social norms, unwed mothers or men and women in same-sex relations among them.

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The health council says it operates the country's largest Title X system in the country, providing sexual and reproductive health care for more than 1 million Californians a year.

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My plan is to ensure that every young girl in Liberia has a quality education and information about sexual and reproductive health -- but I will need more support to make that happen.

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Ahead of the Rio summit, IPPF is making three positive commitments of its own to meet the sexual and reproductive health needs of people in the world's poorest countries to increase their resilience to climate change.

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Babatunde Osotimehin: What we have learned was that efforts to deal with the epidemic might have been much more effective if they had been more tightly integrated with those to improve sexual, reproductive and maternal health.

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The call was for better signposting to sexual and reproductive health services, for girls-only spaces, for health education and promotion programs to counter myths and misinformation, for confidence and self-esteem building initiatives, and for vocational training to foster economic independence.

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Professor Michael Adler, Head of Reproductive Health at University College Hospital in London, said the study reinforced the importance of taking a good sexual history from people visiting STD clinics.

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