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PACT Parental Consent Survey

13 May 2014

The PACT is a UNAIDS-supported collaboration of 25 youth-led and youth-serving organisations that are passionate about and committed to young people’s sexual and reproductive health rights, including access to HIV services. One of the five goals of our work is to eliminate the legal and policy barriers that young people face in accessing sexual and reproductive health and harm reduction services across the world, starting with parental consent requirements.

The PACT has developed a survey for young people (under 30) to gather their opinions on how parental consent laws impact on access to SRH and harm reduction services and, importantly, collect information on their first-hand experiences. Parental consent requirements require young people under a certain age to have a parent’s or a guardian’s consent before they can access certain health services. Sometimes these laws are applied only in relation to certain sexual and reproductive health or harm reduction services.

The survey is available in Spanish, French, Arabic, Russian and English. We ask that you circulate it WIDELY to your youth networks, friends, family members and colleagues across the world. The results will be presented at the AIDS 2014 Conference.

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