Untapped Potential: Adolescents Affected by Armed Conflict showed that adolescents affected by armed conflict are more likely than younger children to: – be recruited into military service; – miss out on an education, especially girls; – suffer sexual violence and related health problems, along with a lack of needed reproductive health care services, especially girls; – be exposed to and contract sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS; and – be economically exploited, in the worst cases as soldiers and commercial sex workers. (Description from source)
