2017-Sep

During 2015–2016, a Ukraine National Situation Assessment to strengthen the adolescent component of the national HIV/AIDS (response programme was conducted with the application of a conceptual approach ‘Strengthening the Adolescent Component of National HIV Programmes through Country Assessments’ / Guidance Document. UNICEF. July 2015) (hereinafter: ‘Assessment’).

The Lancet: Improving the physical, mental and sexual health of adolescents aged 10-19 years, at the cost of US$4.6 per person per year, could bring a 10-fold economic benefit by averting 12 million adolescent deaths and preventing more than 30 million unwanted pregnancies in adolescents.