Boys and young men are often missing from conversations about adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). Yet, girls do not live in isolation: boys share their classrooms, relationships, communities, and futures. In this episode, Mark Tomlinson and Maria Lohan join Esther Lau to explore how to engage boys in ways that support, rather than compete with, continued investment in girls’ SRHR. Together, they discuss why boys’ own needs around consent, contraception, STIs, help-seeking, respectful relationships, and care are too often overlooked. They also consider the role of comprehensive sexuality education, parenting, gender-transformative approaches, and youth-friendly health services in challenging harmful masculinities while supporting boys and girls to develop healthier relationships, shared responsibility, and more equitable futures.

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https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4642(26)00103-3/fulltext

Adolescent nutrition is at a turning point. 🌍

Dr Sara Estecha-Querol from the Global Adolescent Nutrition Network and youth advocate Milca Jane Cameseria from Act4Food join Josefine Gibson to talk about a new co-created global framework for adolescent nutrition — and why young people must be at the centre of adolescent nutrition research, policy, advocacy, and food systems change. Together, we explore the global triple burden of malnutrition, meaningful youth partnership, sustainable food systems, and the urgent need for coordinated action to improve adolescent health and wellbeing worldwide.

🎧 Tune in for a conversation on global health, nutrition equity, youth leadership, and the future of adolescent nutrition.

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https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4642(26)00012-X/fulltext

This episode considers how antibiotic use can be safely reduced in children in high-risk scenarios or with severe infections. To discuss this we are joined by Dr Nadja Vissing and Dr Ulrikka Nygaard, paediatric infectious disease specialists from Copenhagen University Hospital, who led a randomized controlled trial in Denmark evaluating the early discontinuation of empirical antibiotics versus extended treatment in children with cancer and high-risk febrile neutropenia. We hear about the importance of this trial for children with cancer and their families as well as for broader antimicrobial stewardship.

We discuss other recent RCTs that are informing safely reducing antibiotic exposure in children with urinary tract infections, uncomplicated bone and joint infections and probable early onset neonatal sepsis. Nadja and Ulrikka share with listeners their take home messages related to antibiotic decision-making from these trials along with words of wisdom and motivation for other paediatric clinical trialists.

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https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4642(26)00039-8/fulltext