‘Intensify training for lecturers, health workers on sex education’

There’s the need for a extra improved training for lecturers and health workers to give linked sex education for college students, a study conducted on adolescent health has acknowledged.

The study conducted by the African Health Economic and Protection Association (AfHEA) acknowledged adolescent friendly products and companies also wanted to be made readily out there and affordable in or­der to improve Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH) among kids.

A Senior Study Fellow on the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Study (ISSER), Ama Pokua Fenny acknowledged this when she supplied the findings on the self-discipline, ‘access to adolescent sexual and re­productive health products and companies in Ghana: a qualitative see’ at a workshop in Accra on Tuesday.

It changed into held in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), ISSER and the Scientific and Scientific Study Centre of the Ghana Scientific Centre (MRSC-UG­MC).

It changed into on the theme ‘making ac­cess to Adolescent Sexual Reproduc­tive Health (ASRH) products and companies a actuality for kids in Ghana- making improvements to information, communication and sustainable financing.”

It changed into aimed at presenting see finding on the sexual reproductive health needs of kids in Gha­na, formulate operational and policy recommendations for selling equitable access and consume of ASRH products and companies out and in of faculties as successfully as strategies to make certain that sustainable financing of ASRH products and companies.

The study changed into conducted among kids prone between 15 and 24 years within the pre-tertiary and tertiary institutions across the nation.

Essentially based on Madam Fenny, sex education in faculties changed into inadequate to improve sexual reproductive health while lecturers normally lack the expo­sure to give linked sex educa­tion to their college students.

She also acknowledged kids were of­ten unable to chat about sex with their of us or team contributors.

She acknowledged girls skills increased de­gree of stigma when accessing SRH products and companies while these who desire con­traceptives were tagged as faulty.

“SRH products and companies are normally poorly resourced and no longer tailor-made to adoles­cents’ specific needs,” she added.

A Study Fellow on the UGMC, Dr Gifty Ekua Merdiemah acknowledged the see demonstrated that 93 per cent of sexually energetic kids in unre­stricted environments did no longer consume contraceptives, even supposing 80 per cent of them had a total knowledge of ASRH considerations.

She acknowledged SRH of kids in un­restricted environments wanted extra attention from college authorities and policymakers, at the side of that the worth and location of healthcare ser­vices changed into a barrier for kids to access reproductive health products and companies.

She known as on public universities to add successfully-structured ASRH orien­tation programmes and adolescent health nook; at vantage facets with a large selection of SRH products and companies.

Dr Merdiemah known as on stakehold­ers to work collectively to give poli­cies and programmes that address the SRH needs of adolescent in public universities to make certain that that they’ve got a delicate transition to maturity.

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