Promoting Real Healthy Families: Home Economics

Female youth: Most needed health services

Plan to provide information on the most needed health services to the female youth

Kole Intellectual Forum is planning to pass out their students of Home Economics for the academic year 2024 in around November; but first they could do that: the organization is hiring experts from various health facilities around area of operation to give the girls detail information about the most needed health services for them; and, these identified are:

• Sexual and reproductive health: Information and access to contraception, emergency contraception, menstruation, HIV and STI testing and treatment, pregnancy testing and services, and post-abortion care
• Counseling: Counseling for sexual abuse, relationship counseling, and counseling and psycho-social support relating to individual issues that undermine sexual health and well-being
• Gender-based violence and harmful practices counseling: Counseling and referral for gender-based violence and harmful practices
• Mental health: Mental health problems may first become apparent during adolescence
• Protection from female genital mutilation (FGM): Protection from FGM, which has a harmful effect on sexual health and is an assault on rights

This idea has come on board because Kole Intellectual Forum has realized that: Adolescents face specific barriers in accessing health information and services, including restrictive laws and policies, parental or partner control, limited knowledge, distance, cost, lack of confidentiality, and provider bias.