• Protecting the Next Generation: Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Africa
  • Latin America and the Caribbean
  • United States, Canada and Western Europe
• Adding it Up: Sexual and Reproductive Health Services and Financing
• Rights and Responsibilities: Healthy Pregnancies, Contraception and Abortion
• Healthy Sexuality: Relationships, Intimacy and Sexual Behavior

Protecting the Next Generation: Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health - Latin America and the Caribbean

The Guttmacher Institute is working with research and communications partners in Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua—in collaboration with the Pan American Health Organization and a regional research center in Costa Rica—to identify and address the sexual and reproductive health needs of adolescents in Central America. The project aims to increase awareness and understanding of the factors that place young people at risk for early, unwanted pregnancy and STIs in each of the three focus countries. The Institute is also working to assess existing youth-oriented policies and programs in each country, identifying opportunities to implement policy recommendations.

Project findings will be communicated to a wide range of stakeholders, including advocates, policymakers, health care providers, media and NGOs, in order to improve the provision of sexual and reproductive health information and services to youth in the region.

Project support comes from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency.

Click on the map to see our work by region

Latin America resources

Fact sheets

Datos sobre la salud sexual y reproductiva de la juventud guatemalteca [PDF]
July 2008

Datos sobre la salud sexual y reproductiva de la juventud hondureña [PDF]
July 2008

Datos sobre la salud sexual y reproductiva de la juventud nicaragüense [PDF]
July 2008

Datos sobre la salud sexual y reproductiva de la juventud salvadoreña [PDF]
July 2008

"In Brief"

Proteger la salud sexual y reproductiva de la juventud guatemalteca [PDF]
November 2007

Proteger la salud sexual y reproductiva de la juventud hondureña [PDF]
November 2007

Proteger la salud sexual y reproductiva de la juventud nicaragüense [PDF]
November 2007

Maternidad temprana en Guatemala: un desafío constante [PDF]
November 2006

Maternidad temprana en Honduras: un desafío constante [PDF]
October 2006

Maternidad temprana en Nicaragua: un desafío constante [PDF]
September 2006

Highlighted research articles

Evaluating the need for sex education in developing countries: sexual behaviour, knowledge of preventing sexually transmitted infections/HIV and unplanned pregnancy [PDF]
Susheela Singh, Akinrinola Bankole and Vanessa Woog
Sex Education, Volume 5, Issue 4, November 2005

Reports

Asegurar un mañana más saludable en Centroamérica: Proteger la salud sexual y reproductiva de la juventud de hoy [PDF]
Lisa Remez, Elena Prada, Susheela Singh, Luis Rosero Bixby and Akinrinola Bankole
May 2008

Into a New World: Young Women's Sexual and Reproductive Lives
January 1998

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