The Partnership for Male Youth
promoting health for AYA males

 
  Announcement
  March 13, 2014 

ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH AND PHYSICIANS FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
JOIN THE PARTNERSHIP FOR MALE YOUTH

The Partnership for Male Youth (PMY) is pleased to announce that the organizations 
 

Advocates for Youth is a nonprofit organization and advocacy group based in Washington, D.C., USA, dedicated to sexuality education, the prevention of HIV and of sexually transmitted disease, teenage pregnancy prevention, youth access to condoms and contraception (including emergency contraception), equality for LGBT youth, and youth participation. In addition, Advocates for Youth sponsors media campaigns and other forms of outreach which attempt to change societal norms to be more understanding of, accepting of, and responsible about youth sexuality.


Physicians for Reproductive Health unites the medical community and concerned supporters. Together, PRH works to improve access to comprehensive reproductive health care. Through their Teen Reproductive Health program, they insure that adolescents have the knowledge, equal access to quality services, and freedom to make their own reproductive health care decisions. A large number of the doctors Physicians for Reproductive Health represents practice in the field of obstetrics and gynecology, but many are pediatricians, fertility doctors, family physicians, cardiologists, neurologists, radiologists, and others. 

 

"Advocates for Youth's work in adolescent reproductive health is groundbreaking.The organization is a leader in providing youth with a voice to advocate for their own health.They bring a wealth of knowledge about adolescent health issues and have an understanding of both the health issues that adolescent males face and how they can be engaged in their own health care." said Dennis Barbour, Executive Director of the Partnership for Male Youth . "The Partnership will benefit enormously from the guidance it will receive from the youth that already advise Advocates. As a result of our work with Advocates we hope to engage a new generation of male youth who will understand the importance of maintaining and promoting their own health, for their own sake as well as for the sake of their sexual partners."

 

"Physicians for Reproductive Health has done tremendous work in the area of health care access, a  crucial dimension to the AYA male health care puzzle," said Barbour. "By providing the physician's distinctive voice to debates over reproductive health care PRH plays an important role in shaping policy that affects AYA male health," he said.

 

Advocates and PRH join thirteen other organizations that have recently joined the Partnership. These organizations are:
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The Partnership for Male Youth has emerged from the health related work of The Boys Initiative, a young nonprofit organization. In late 2012 the Initiative began researching the state of health care for adolescent and young adult (AYA) males, with an eye toward developing solutions to improve their health.  After an extensive literature search and discussions with over 100 individuals from a range of medical disciplines, and under the guidance of a multidisciplinary medical advisory board, the Initiative developed a groundbreaking resource for health care providers, which it released in January 2014: the Health Provider Toolkit for Adolescent and Young Adult Males.  The Toolkit is an unprecedented health care resource and will serve as the foundation for other efforts to enhance health, and health care delivery, for AYA males.

  

With the release of the Toolkit The Boys Initiative has launched The Partnership for Male Youth. The Partnership is a collaborative effort to disseminate and improve upon the Toolkit while developing provider, patient and parent education initiatives designed to enhance provider and parent knowledge and skills while engaging AYA males in their own health care.

  

The Partnership's members will be those organizations that participated in the development of the Toolkit, as well as others that have an interest in the promotion of AYA male health. The Partnership website will be launched in mid to late March.

 

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For more information contact Dennis Barbour at [email protected] 

or at 202-841-7475