Objectives South Africa is reported to have one of the highest rates of sexual violence in the world, with adolescent girls between the ages of 12鈥 17 being particularly at risk. Given that adolescence is considered a critical developmental period for establishing normative sexual behavior, this ...
In 2009, 38 black South African caregivers and youth (ages 10-14) participated in key informant interviews and focus groups, which were coded for themes related to family communication about sex. Findings highlighted a cultural taboo against communication that among some caregivers was shifting. ...
School attendance is compulsory for children between the ages of 5–6 and 18years. Depending on the Land, full-time schooling is mandated for either 9 or 10years; it may be followed by part-time attendance at a vocational school, complemented by anapprenticeship(dual system). All compulsory ...
Description:The map below shows how Literacy rate, youth total (% of people ages 15-24) varies by country. The shade of the country corresponds to the magnitude of the indicator. The darker the shade, the higher the value. The country with the highest value in the world is Uzbekistan, ...
Fikelela AIDS Project. Youth and sexuality research ages 12-19 years in the Diocese of Cape Town South Africa. 来自 Semantic Scholar 喜欢 0 阅读量: 50 作者:R Mash,R Kareithi 摘要: This research is unique in that it aimed at establishing if church-going young people adhere to the ...
This article seeks to break from the tendency that ignores love, sex and gender in African children's intimate relations. By drawing on empirical research conducted with children and young people in South Africa, the article demonstrates how boys and girls negotiate and invest in intimacy under ...
South Africa has one of the highest youth unemployment rates in the world, with over 50% of young people between the ages of 15 and 24 jobless. The World Youth Skills Day serves as a crucial tool for bridging the skills mismatch and creating more opportunities for young people to participate...
Definition: Youth literacy rate is the percentage of people ages 15-24 who can both read and write with understanding a short simple statement about their everyday life.Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (http://uis.unesco.org/)See also: Thematic map, Time series comparison...
Street children in South Africa are, in the main, between the ages of 11 and 17 years. Rape, prostitution, sexual bartering and exchange, casual sex and ro... Jill,Swart-Kruger,and,... - 《Social Science & Medicine》 被引量: 211发表: 1997年 Transgender Female Youth and Sex Work: HI...
In the context of this paper and research on entrepreneurship, youth refers to people of ages 15–35. Such definition encompasses both the ILO and UN concept of youth as people aged 15–24 as well as the approach by Kew et al. (2013) in a study on global youth entrepreneurship where yo...