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| Content Provider | Springer Nature : BioMed Central |
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| Author | Ahinkorah, Bright Opoku Okyere, Joshua Hagan, John Elvis Seidu, Abdul-Aziz Aboagye, Richard Gyan Yaya, Sanni |
| Abstract | Child marriage is a fundamental violation of human rights and a threat to access to education, sexual and reproductive health care, and employment. It also threatens freedom from violence, reproductive rights, movement, and the right to consensual marriage. In most countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the legal age of marriage is 18 years. Hence, girls who marry before 18 years are considered as victims of child marriage. Closely knitted to legal age for marriage is the issue of age for sexual consent, which refers to the minimum age at which a person is considered to have the legal capacity to consent to sexual intercourse. While there seem to be a standard legal age for marriage, the legal age for sexual consent varies in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa and is often lower than the legal age of marriage. In this commentary, we argue that the gap between the legal age of sexual consent and marriage partly accounts for some of the sexual and reproductive health challenges such as intimate partner violence, sexually transmitted infections, adolescent pregnancy, early childbirth, including unsafe abortions among adolescent girls in sub-Saharan Africa and infringements on their sexual and reproductive health rights. This commentary highlights strategic potential interventions that could help address the identified gaps. We argue that aligning the age for sexual consent and marriage is not the solution to the problem. However, what is critical is the education of young people about sexual and reproductive health issues and comprehensive sexuality education through advocacy networks at the national and local levels. Thus, the key is to provide accurate, timely, and non-judgmental sexual and reproductive health and rights information to young people irrespective of the prevailing age of consent. This provision will empower them to make informed decisions about their sexual and reproductive health. |
| Related Links | https://reproductive-health-journal.biomedcentral.com/counter/pdf/10.1186/s12978-021-01177-w.pdf |
| Ending Page | 7 |
| Page Count | 7 |
| Starting Page | 1 |
| File Format | HTM / HTML |
| ISSN | 17424755 |
| DOI | 10.1186/s12978-021-01177-w |
| Journal | Reproductive Health |
| Issue Number | 1 |
| Volume Number | 18 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | BioMed Central |
| Publisher Date | 2021-06-21 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Reproductive Medicine Public Health Maternal and Child Health Adolescents Age of marriage Sexual consent Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Content Type | Text |
| Subject | Obstetrics and Gynecology Reproductive Medicine |
| Journal Impact Factor | 3.6/2023 |
| 5-Year Journal Impact Factor | 4/2023 |
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