**2.8 Sexual information and education versus sexual behaviours among adolescents**

Adolescents' behaviours have been described by medical, psychosocial, and educational scientists as being malleable owing to internal and external stressors [120, 124, 125]. Owing to globalization, changes in social roles and responsibilities, and migrations, the current situation has plenty of sources of sexual information and education among adolescents including schools, healthcare professionals, parents, religious facilities, media, and peers [6, 83, 126]. These sources are expected to enhance the sexual well-being of adolescents by developing them with good SRH knowledge, and soft skills and thus, shape their safe sexual behaviours. However, literature has critiqued some of the sources to be not valid enough to provide accurate and age-appropriate SRH information and education among adolescents such as media and peer groups [121].

Most social media including television, radio, online music, movies, cinema, and peer groups, just to mention a few, are currently disseminating SRH health information and education without considering the sociocultural, age, and gender differences contexts of the consumers. Sources, including parents, healthcare professionals, and religious facilities are reported to be rarely available to sit and educate their children about SRH [23, 46]. The duty of providing accurate and age-appropriate SRH information and education among adolescents seems to fall on schools [127]. However, the identification of factors that determine adolescents' biological changes, neurobehavioral changes, and social maturation to pursue their roles and responsibilities in society needs to be given priority during the development of SRH lesson materials [5]. Based on this context scholar appear in the frontline in advocating innovative interventional researches to address the informative contextual gap observed in this chapter for the well-being of young people to contribute to the socio-economic prosperity of nations, regions and the globe at large [128].
