A Vision Shared: Valérie, 28, Cameroun

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What are the greatest challenges to youth health and rights?

Often, young people's rights are ridiculed and ignored. It's therefore important to insist on respecting the dignity of women and girls.  Also, incomplete or wrong information on sexual health is a big problem.

How are you making the world safer and healthier for youth?

I wholeheartedly respect young people's right to correct and complete information and to quality health care education. I am working to develop sexual violence prevention programs with a focus on gender, and to integrate these programs into all sexual and reproductive health programs.

What are you dreams for yourself and for the world's youth?

That importance is granted to providing correct information and quality sexual and reproductive health services—both of which are essential to young people's lives. Girls and women should be more financially autonomous so that their needs are better met. I also hope to see the initiation of a methodical process of reflection about the qualitative indicators of sexual and reproductive rights.

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Vision submitted May 23, 2008.