LEVEL OF AWARENESS OF ADOLESCENT REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH IN BANDUNG CITY

The global commitment to build the future facing the Megatrends facing all countries is to create generational success by emphasizing the elimination of poverty and hunger, inequality and intergenerational injustice. Adolescent health is influenced by values, religion, culture, family, and health services to achieve access to reproductive health services as the key to the Sustainable Development Goals. This aimed to get an overview of the description of the level of adolescent reproductive awareness in the city of Bandung, including aspects of access, understanding, appraising, and use of adolescent reproductive health services. The research was conducted with a cross-sectional design, this research instrument was in the form of 44 questions, consisting of 4 sub-components including accessing, understanding, appraising, and applying regarding adolescent awareness about reproductive health developed from the Stormacq research. The research was carried out quantitatively and qualitatively. The results of this study concluded that adolescent access to adolescent reproductive health was at a moderate level of 69%, and it was found that low access to reproductive health was 11%. Meanwhile, the understanding of adolescent reproductive health was found at a low level of 12%. Regarding the ability of adolescents to analyze reproductive health, it is still in the category of reproductive health level, while in terms of Appraising/assessing reproductive health in the moderate category is 68%. The suggestion was that to increase adolescents' awareness, extensive education is needed, through social media, followed by intensive personal consultation.