The Global Sexual and Reproductive Health Service Package for Men and Adolescent Boys has been developed to support providers of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services to increase the range and quality of services to meet the specific and diverse needs of men and adolescent boys. This package focuses specifically on the provision of such services integrated within clinical and non-clinical contexts and follows a gender-transformative approach. It covers men and adolescent boys in all their diversity and takes a positive approach to SRH, seeing this not just as the absence of disease, but the positive expression of one’s gender, sex and sexuality. In doing so, this service package contributes to efforts to ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) as prioritized in the Sustainable Development Goals.

Health care providers need to be trained to accommodate diverse needs and ensure access to stigma-free services. Furthermore, various groups of have additional or slightly different sexual and reproductive health issues and needs, e.g. young men and adolescent boys, gay and bisexual men and other men who have sex with men, men and adolescent boys living with HIV, men who sell sex, men who inject drugs, and transgender people identifying as men....