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Let's Chat About Sex: Tech Platforms Target FCT Youth with Sexual Health Info

Chibuike Alagboso

November 28, 2018 |

Nigeria Health Watch |

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Response Location: Nigeria

In a nation that traditionally does not believe or address that adolescents have sex despite overwhelming data, Nigerian web- and mobile-based platforms are expanding access to quality sexual education for youth. Education as a Vaccine (EVA), a non-governmental organization, in particular has seen success with a set of three apps called LinkUp, Frisky, and DIVA that provide anonymous, accurate, and nonjudgemental sexual and reproductive information/counseling. Since 2007, EVA has received over 900,000 text messages, 28,433 voice calls and 800 emails/web entries.

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The Joy Of Child Spacing While Giving Birth: One PHC's Story

Bashar Abubakar

November 07, 2018 |

Nigeria Health Watch |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Kano

Through ‘child spacing’ strategies, Nigerian health centers have helped women gain greater autonomy and have increased planning about the size of their family. Nurses discuss child spacing with women during antenatal visits and provide options regarding use of contraception.

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Birth Control to Fight Poverty in Guanacaste

Noelia Esquivel

November 03, 2018 |

La Voz de Guanacaste |

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Response Location: Costa Rica, Huacas, Guanacaste

In the Guanacaste region of Costa Rica, a non-profit is donating IUDs to women, acknowledging that the lack of access to contraception and family planning services is part of a cycle of poverty for many women and families. So far, paired with education about the process and based off of similar programs in the U.S. and other countries, organizations have helped 60 women receive IUDs.

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Alapa: Why family planning is becoming a household name in Oyo State

Chibuike Alagboso

October 30, 2018 |

Nigeria Health Watch |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Oyo, Oyo State

The Nigerian state of Oyo has a modern Contraceptive Prevalence Rate (mCPR) of 24%, which is the highest in the country compared to the national average of 10.8%. This can be attributed to family planning services brought to citizens through a fruitful partnership between government efforts and outside partners like nonprofit Marie Stopes International Organization of Nigeria (MSION). Since 2013 MSION has helped bring an influx of new family planning information and media outreach, improve clinic facilities and services, offer counseling for pre- and postnatal care, and much more.

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Incinerators bring hygienic disposal of menstrual waste

Jacky Achan

October 28, 2018 |

New Vision |

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Response Location: Uganda

Uganda’s education ministry requires all schools to have incinerators to burn used sanitary pads. Lack of funding limits schools’ ability to comply. Even when incinerators exist, girls don’t necessarily use them. Educating both girls and boys about menstruation reduces stigma and increases the likelihood that girls feel comfortable enough to collect pads instead of throwing them in pit latrines.

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Coming To The Right Answer By Themselves: Talking With Boys About Sexual Assault

Jeff Brady

October 10, 2018 |

NPR |

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Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

To change the way that young boys and men are taught about consent and sexual assault, a youth group in Philadelphia is hosting conversations, fostering dialogues, and ultimately letting them come to the "right answer" on their own. These groups are working to shift the overall culture surrounding these issues, and the youth involved are responding.

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Can medical outreaches for maternal health bridge the access gap in the Federal Capital Territory?

Chibuike Alagboso

October 09, 2018 |

Nigeria Health Watch |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Gwagwalada, Federal Capital Territory

Medical professionals travel to remote areas of Nigeria with little access to family planning or maternal health care to hand out resources such as condoms or birth control and to train villages' Traditional Birth Attendants (TBA) on updated safe birth practices. The team, called the PeachAid Medical Initiative, has reached over 30,000 women and 400 TBAs through medical outreach to rural communities since 2015. The work at large is meant to address the high maternal death rate in Nigeria.

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In Kenya, Alternative Rites of Passage are offering girls a life-saving alternative to ‘the cut'

Christabel Ligami

October 09, 2018 |

Equal Times |

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Response Location: Kenya

A Kenyan group called Alternative Rites of Passage is offering an alternative to genital mutilation for Masai girls coming of age. Their program is working towards educating women, establishing new social norms, and working with communities to build trust around new practices. Their goal is to increase health outcomes for young women,

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International experts love Sweden's sex-ed. 96% of students don't

Alia Shahzad

September 20, 2018 |

Apolitical |

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Response Location: Sweden

In Sweden, sex education is mandatory, but more than a third of students rate the knowledge they gain from it as “poor” or “very poor.” Contributing issues include a lack of teacher support and training, as well as the absence of feedback mechanisms for students.

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Discussing women's health can be taboo in their cultures. These young women are changing that.

Aneri Pattani

August 28, 2018 |

The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network) |

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Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

In many cultures, women are discouraged from discussing personal health issues and sexual concerns and the doctors they consult often lack a full understanding of this context. By providing support to patients and training to medical professionals, organizations throughout the greater Philadelphia area are "eager to help doctors close the gap" in their service to diverse communities.

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