Background
The lack of friendly youth and adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights clinic at Mawenzi Regional Referral Hospital impeded its important role as a health facility in promoting sexual and reproductive health of young people leading to effects such as early and unwanted pregnancies. In Tanzania and Moshi municipal, impoverished girls suffer disproportionately from unintended pregnancies, unsafe abortion, maternal death and disability, sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV rates as well as barriers to reproductive health information and care.
About the project
The project goal was to promote sexual and reproductive health of young people in the target population by increasing access to services based on the YFSRHR principles. The objectives were to establish a youth friendly SRHR clinic that would provide services at “convenient” timings for Youth at and link existing secondary schools’ health program (in Moshi municipal) to the youth friendly SRHR clinic at Mawenzi Regional Referral Hospital, Kilimanjaro. Activities conducted were stakeholders’ meetings, assessments on utilization of YFSRHR services among 200 students, monthly school SRHR sensitizations, creation of youth clubs and selection of youth champions.
Results
Establishment a YFSRHR clinic at Mawenzi Regional Referral Hospital, 1364 visits made by youth to the YFSRHR clinic equivalent to 68.2% of annual target, a budget allocated to YFSRHR clinic and other SRHR services and monthly sessions conducted in comprehensive sexual education in 4 secondary schools.
Year: 2018/2019
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