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Project

Addressing unmet need for contraceptives among adolescents using community-embedded intervention
 

Nigeria
Project ID
108677
Total Funding
CAD 671,800.00
Project Status
Completed
End Date
Duration
48 months

Programs and partnerships

Maternal and Child Health

Lead institution(s)

Summary

The shortfall in contraception and sexual reproductive health services in Nigeria, particularly for adolescents, is resulting in high pregnancy rates.Read more

The shortfall in contraception and sexual reproductive health services in Nigeria, particularly for adolescents, is resulting in high pregnancy rates. Prevailing social attitudes and practices at the individual, community, school, and health facility levels often present major barriers to adolescents seeking services.

This project aims to increase access to needed contraceptive services by adolescents in Nigeria’s Ebonyi State. Specifically, the project is expected to strengthen the ability of adolescents to make reproductive health choices and of healthcare providers to give sexual reproductive health services to adolescents. An innovative, community-embedded approach will support adolescents and key adult members of their communities to develop initiatives that improve communication and strengthen relationships within families, with teachers and health service providers, and across communities. This will create an environment conducive to improving adolescent sexual reproductive health. Led by the Health Policy Research Group at the University of Nigeria Enugu Campus, the project will be implemented in six representative urban and rural local government areas across the state.

Decision-makers have prioritized the improvement of adolescent sexual reproductive health services, and the evidence from this project will inform scale-up dialogue and efforts across the state and beyond.

Research outputs

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Report
Language:

English

Summary

This one-page report provides an overview of the workshop, which included representative stakeholders from all levels in adolescent and sexual health, including the Senior Special Adviser (SSA) to the State Governor on health, the State Coordinator of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and the Commissioner for Health. In advance of the research, the meeting generated discussion on adolescent sexual health, and with the help of participants to determine the particular communities to be targeted for the study, as well as implementation sites.

Author(s)
Mbachu, Chinyere Ojiugo
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