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International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) released a comprehensive service package focused on men’s sexual and reproductive health in 2020 that can be a useful tool for service providers at all levels. 

Why a service package for adolescent boys and men? 

Men have substantial SRH needs for contraception, prevention, and treatment of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs), sexual dysfunction, infertility, and male cancers. Yet these SRH needs are often unmet due to a combination of factors. Ensuring that the SRH needs of men and adolescent boys are sufficiently addressed, along with those of women and girls, is also part of a comprehensive gender-transformative approach.

Purpose of this service package 

The Global Sexual and Reproductive Health Service Package for Men and Adolescent Boys has been developed to support providers of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services to increase the range and quality of services to meet the specific and diverse needs of men and adolescent boys. This package focuses specifically on the provision of such services integrated within clinical and non-clinical contexts and follows a gender-transformative approach. 

Who is this service package written for? 

This is primarily for all levels of staff/service providers in clinical and non-clinical settings that offer, or would like to offer, SRH services for men, from adolescence to adulthood. Program managers, policymakers and advocates working in this area will also find it useful. The package can be used by organizations currently providing SRH services to men and adolescent boys to improve the range and quality of services, or by those intending to develop their work in this area. The contents are applicable to organizations across the globe but will need to be adapted to local contexts.

How to use the service package? 

This service package provides an overview of the SRH services that need to be provided for men and adolescent boys and links to existing tools, service delivery guidelines, and resources utilizing a gender-transformative approach. The service package may be used to learn the importance of SRH services for men, to determine what SRH services for adolescent boys and men to provide, to advocate for a stronger focus on this issue, and to gain insights from country case studies on the work of IPPF and UNFPA in providing SRH services for men and adolescent boys. 

Download the documents here: 

The Global Sexual and Reproductive Health Service Package for Men and Adolescent Boys

Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights during the COVID-19 pandemic