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Meeting the sexual health needs of young people living on the street

Chase, E; (2006) Meeting the sexual health needs of young people living on the street. In: Ingham, R and Aggleton, P, (eds.) Promoting Young People’s Sexual Health International Perspectives. (pp. 81-97). Routledge

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Abstract

In this chapter, the situations faced by children and young people on the street are discussed alongside the risks to their sexual health. The available literature concerning the sexual health of street-living young people is described alongside findings from some recently conducted research among street-living young people in Zimbabwe. As such, the chapter explores how factors identified in the broader literature intersect and affect real lives. While recognising that living on the street presents profound and indisputable challenges to young people's sexual health and wider well-being, the chapter discusses the importance of approaches to sexual health promotion that are both meaningful and contextualised within young people's life circumstances. It discusses. the inadequacies of viewing street living young people solely through a lens that focuses on their passivity, victimisation and their need for protection. Such an approach risks both misrepresenting the challenges that these young people face and undermining their collective capacity to define their own responses. Rather, we argue that programme responses which strike a balance between acknowledging street-living young people's vulnerability and enabling them to take greater control over factors affecting their sexual health are more likely to have a positive impact on their well-being -

Type: Book chapter
Title: Meeting the sexual health needs of young people living on the street
ISBN: 1134188684
ISBN-13: 9781134188680
Keywords: Social Science
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1536848
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