Vulnerability Analysis in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) : Indications of Intersecting Vulnerable Positions in a NationalSurvey Among Young People in Sweden

• BackgroundThe UN policies on global sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) use gender as the foremost social determinant to explain vulnerability in relation to SRHR among young people. The Agenda 2030 explains SRHR only in relation to girls and women. Can we find new ways to analyse and discuss vulnerability and resources in SRHR. Our hypothesis is that intersectionality might be a useful tool. AimThe aim is as to explore intersecting vulnerable positions within the three SRHR related outcome areas; unsafe sex, sex against one’s will and transactional sex , among young people aged 16 29, through the development of a stepwise descriptive intersecting vulnerability analysis. MethodsThree outcome variables from the survey: 1. unsafe sex,2. sex against one’s will3. transactional sex Cross tabulations of outcome variables (1-3) stratified by gender andthe intersection of five other social determinants:1. gender*sexual identity2. gender*transgender experience3. gender*economy4. gender*foreign born5. gender*social welfare recipiency ResultsThe descriptive intersecting vulnerability analysis visualise how gender intersects with five other social determinants and how this generates vulnerable positions within the three outcome areas: unsafe sex, sex against one’s will and transactional sex. Vulnerable positions are complex and different in most of the three outcome areas. Intersectionality is a useful tool for vulnerability analysis in SRHR.

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MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP  -- Hälsovetenskap -- Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa, socialmedicin och epidemiologi (hsv//swe)

MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES  -- Health Sciences -- Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology (hsv//eng)

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health equity

HIV

intersectionality

social determinants

SRHR

survey policy vulnerability

Health and society

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