Adolescence
defined as a transition from childhood to adulthood with features including
secondary sexual growth, changes in hormonal milieu, emotional, cognitive and
psychological development. Adolescents are usually adventurous in all spheres of human activities including experimentation of sexual practices. Adolescent
girls and young women aged 15-24 years constitutes about approximately 880 million
of world’s population.
There are over 600 million girls (aged 10 to 19) in the
world today; more than half million of them live in low and middle-income
countries. Only, Sub-Saharan Africa make up 23 percent of the world adolescent’s
population, while Ethiopia adolescents’ population constitutes about 26.1 percent
of the total population. Early sexual debut is defined as sexual activity
before 18 years, the age of legal adulthood in Ethiopia. Adolescent sexual
experimentation before marriage is considered as the reproductive health
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