Rethinking Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights for Young Women in Southern Africa: A Critical Perspective [Hardcover]

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

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.

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 Universit? 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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