promoting health for AYA males

 
  April 24, 2014

CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND OFFICE OF POPULATION AFFAIRS RELEASE FIRST SET OF COMPREHENSIVE GUIDELINES FOR MALE FAMILY PLANNING AND PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES

In today's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the CDC and OPA released the first set of comprehensive, evidence based or evidence informed recommendations for providing family planning and preventive health services for males.

 

The recommendations are intended for all primary care providers, not just Title X family planning clinics.

 

"These recommendations can serve as the foundation for further clinical recommendations and guidelines that advance male health.They will also help spur research that identifies and addresses gaps in our knowledge about males' health care needs."" said Dennis Barbour, executive director of the Partnership for Male Youth. "They also underscore the importance of our health provider toolkit for adolescent and young adult males that we released earlier this year."

 

The full set of CDC/OPA guidelines can be found here, and the male guidelines can be found here. It is expected that further information about the male guidelines will be released by non-governmental entities in the near future.

 

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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. 

 

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For more information contact Dennis Barbour at dbarbour@theboysinitiative.org 

or at 202-841-7475