June 1996

Teens Get Ready…to take charge of their lives

Vol 4. No. 2

Front Cover

• Teens Get Ready…to take charge of their lives

Inside this Issue

• A Call for Action:
  Excerpts from an article by ‘Nike O. Esiet, AHI Project Director,
  published in the Guardian of May 28, 1996
• Principals Seminar Deliberates on Managing Adolescent Health Issues
• Facing the Challenges of Adolescence
• Poems
• True Life Story
• Advert: Human Sexuality Course
• Health Tips

Back Cover

• Ifako Embraces Adolescent Health

Issue Information

Growing Up is published quarterly in Lagos, Nigeria by Action Health Incorporated (AHI).

AHI is a non-profit organization working in Nigeria to provide adolescents access to the much needed reproductive health education, life-planning skills and services as a major step towards addressing the high incidence of unintended teenage pregnancy, related school dropout, clandestine abortions, sexually transmitted disease/AIDS and related deaths.

Growing Up is available free of charge to teenagers and other individuals working to promote teenagers health and development. Readers are invited to contribute views, articles, letters, and photos for publication. Articles may be quoted or reprinted from Growing Up provided proper credit is given to AHI.

All correspondence should be addressed to:

The Editor, Growing Up
Action Health Incorporated
PO Box 803, Yaba
Lagos, Nigeria

Special Thanks

This edition of Growing Up was produced with support from the support from the Population Programme, MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, Illinois.