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Adolescents comprise a significant proportion of India’s population. Despite improvements in various outcomes, this demographic continues to face serious challenges to their health and well-being, including high levels of teenage pregnancies, low rates of antenatal care for adolescent pregnancies, and lack of safe menstrual practices amongst adolescent girls. Investing in adolescent health should therefore be a policy priority. This report outlines adolescent health issues and makes an assessment of initiatives across the country to address them. It also explores the potential for scaling up some of the best practices among these measures, and highlights the need for policy to be supported by reliable data. Click here to read the report.
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