The youth and adolescents go through various reproductive health challenges and concerns during transition to adulthood. Lack of reproductive health information and services, negative attitudes of health workers, limited youth friendly services, stigma and discrimination and influence of the media make young people more vulnerable to HIV. First is meaningful involvement of the target audience, who are the young people in developing adolescent and youth HIV prevention programmes. Collaboration with development partners is important but we must also focus on sustainability of HIV prevention. Training journalists on reporting reproductive and health issues in young people should be a best practice in sharing information on reproductive health.

Source: Standard Digital June 10, 2017 06:27 UTC