International Adolescent Health Week is observed from March 15 to 21, 2020 by the Mysore Adolescent Health Academy (MAHA). Here we publish a brief write-up by Dr. S.N. Mothi, Chairman of MAHA and Asha Kirana Charitable Trust, Hebbal, Mysuru.
International Adolescent Health Week is a grassroots initiative for young people, their health care providers, their teachers, their parents, their advocates and their communities to come together and celebrate young people and with an ultimate goal of working collectively towards improving the health and well-being of over 1 billion adolescents across the globe today. Ten to nineteen years age group constitute more than 1/5th of India’s population.
