Provide Tech Health Solutions for Nigerian Youth

New Counselling Channel Alert!

Many interesting activities happened this quarter but we want to share this innovative stride. 

This is project titled “Provide Tech Health Solutions for Nigerian Youth” and that is what we have been doing. We use relevant media platforms to engage young people, providing them with access to accurate sexual and reproductive health (SRH) information and services. The Mobile Questions and Answer Service in addition to SMS, calls, e-mail, and Facebook has integrated WhatsApp into its channels for reaching adolescents and young people in Nigeria. According to Hootsuite, a leading social media dashboard reported that WhatsApp is the most active social media platform in Nigeria with 85% of users. In our focus group discussions with adolescents and annual evaluations, young people have suggested WhatsApp as a way of reaching them with sexual and reproductive health information. So we took on the challenge and started to reach young people through this medium.

WhatsApp helps us reach young people who may not want to call, send a text or use any other platform to reach a counselor. WhatsApp platform helps us engage in one-on-one chats with users, send broadcast messages, and hold WhatsApp conferences and to use our  WhatsApp status to pass information to our users. 

We get questions like:

“How do I break up with my girlfriend, without hurting her emotionally?

“What is the treatment for sexual dysfunction?”

In the quarter we engage in over 380 conversations through WhatsApp, ranging from questions on relationship issues, puberty, menstrual hygiene, and HIV. Questions were received from both males and females.

We will persevere to ensure that we reach young people through innovative and captivating ways. We make this happen through your sustained support and donations to advance adolescents sexual and reproductive health in Nigeria.

Thank you!