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Very welcome to the challenge.
The stimation of the UNFPA for 2003 the world adolescent population between 10 and 19 years old was aproximately 1,200 millons of persons, that was 19% of the total world population. There are 3 millons of persons under 25 years old and 85 % lived in poor countries. Half of this population are woman.
Each year 14 millons of adolescents have babies and they have 2 to 5 times more risk to die during pregnancy or delivery than women of 20 to 30 years old.
Almost 25 % of people with VIH have 25 years old or less and each day, 6,000 young people are infected with the HIV. Actually, 1/3 of the infected with HIV are between 15 to 24 years old and very few of them, know about of their positive serology.
The median age of initiation of sexuality is earlier in developed countries than developing ones, but with higher contraceptive use than developing countries, where the ages of initiation is earlier among the poor people with very low rates of contraceptive use.
The existence and accesability to Health Services for adolescents, mainly in Sexual and Reproductive Health Care are scarce or not exist.
All this dramatic reality must be combined with the stimulation of the advance in the molecular medicine for litle girls and adolescents in the field of Genetic, Endocrinology surgery of Genital Malformation and gyneacological disturbances, among others morbidities.
Very welcome to the challenge, when the Scientific Societies from developing countries belongs to FIGIJ.
Very welcome to the challenge, when Scientific Societies from developing countries must to increase the quality of medicine of our specialty through the adecuate training .
Very welcome to the challenge, to stimulate the development of our specialty in Continents where PAG is almost unknown.
Very welcome to the challenge to improve the clasical concept of PAG, included in the concept of Sexual and Reproductive Health Care.
We have a large task for the future years.
Professor Ramiro Molina Cartes
President of FIGIJ |
