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Mission
Our Mission
is to create a world in which everyone, especially adolescents enjoy the
highest standards of health and development, whereby all are protected,
respected, nurtured to live their life to its full potential while ensuring
that their needs and rights are fulfilled.
Vision
Adolescents
in the WHO South –East Asia Region should be healthy, educated, and socially
responsible, have freedom of expression and live in a safe and supportive
environment.
Objectives
 To support member countries in the region in
the development and implementation of policies, strategies and operational
plans related to adolescent health and development(AHD)
To develop/strengthen cost effective mechanisms
and guidelines for implementation of adolescent friendly health services.
To address priority problems concerning
adolescent health and development.
To promote an integrated approach for
implementation of adolescent health activities with those of the other programmes such as reproductive health, and nutrition,
mental health HIV/AIDS and health promotion etc
The Global Goals relevant to Young People
The
UN General Assembly Special Session on Children:
 Development and implementation of national
health policies and programmes for adolescents, including goals and
indicators, to promote their physical and mental health.
The
MDGs on HIV/AIDS and Maternal Mortality:
Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the
spread of HIV/AIDS
Reduce by three-quarters the 1990maternal
mortality ratio by 2015
The
UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS
By 2005, ensure that at least 90 per cent, and
by 2010 at least 95 per cent, of young
men and women aged 15 to 24 have access to the information, skills and
services required to reduce
their vulnerability to HIV infection
By 2005, reduce HIV prevalence among young men and women aged 15 to 24
in the most affected countries by 25 per cent and by 25 per cent globally by
2010
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