The 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda is of unprecedented scope and ambition ( 1). Further, new scientific and programmatic documents, such as the AAHA! ( 6) and the Lancet Commission report ( 3), make a strong case that investing in adolescents and youth is a requirement for development. In addition, the new Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health puts adolescents and youth at the center of the SDGs, and central to achieving these goals. Major changes have taken place in the global landscape since the adoption of the Regional Strategy and the Plan of Action, including the sun-setting of the Millennium Development Goals and the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a more ambitious and comprehensive agenda. That report also notes that this has been changing, and has been reinforced with the recognition in the EWEC global strategy and other recent global documents that adolescents occupy a pivotal position in global public health and could play a transformative role within the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development ( 149). The 2017 progress report on the Every Woman Every Child (EWEC) Global Strategy on Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health ( 149) states that until recently, adolescent health was a neglected topic. IV.2 The evolving nature of the adolescent and youth health agenda It takes into account the lessons learned from the past as well as the evolving global and regional health developments and commitments, and their implications for the construction of a new adolescent and youth health agenda for the Region beyond 2018, when the current Action Plan comes to an end. This part of the document presents a forward-looking perspective on adolescent and youth health. Survive, Thrive, Transform: Leaving No Young Person Behind in the Americas IV.1 Introduction
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