Like many regions in the Philippines, Cagayan de Oro (CDO) is grappling with a significant challenge: a high rate of teenage pregnancy. This highly urbanized city recorded an alarming statistic in 2023: 60 out of 1,000 live births were teen pregnancies. To address...
While designing their adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health (AYSRH) program with The Challenge Initiative (TCI), Dipolog City in the Philippines decided to adopt data for decision-making as a key high-impact intervention (HII). However, to successfully...
The Challenge Initiative’s (TCI’s) East Africa team represented TCI at the International Maternal Newborn Health Conference (IMNHC) in Cape Town, South Africa, held May 8-11. The conference was organized by AlignMNH with the maternal and newborn health community to...
Although evidence exists showing well-designed and well-implemented adolescent and youth-friendly health services (AYFHS) can help increase access to and use of contraception, traditional models of specialized service delivery for adolescents have proven difficult to...
The Challenge Initiative’s (TCI) East Africa team has published a new article in Frontiers for Global Women’s Health that assesses TCI’s impact on adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health (AYSRH) services in Kilifi and Migori counties in...
Changing the Narrative: How Nyamira County is Tackling Its High Rate of Teenage Pregnancies Contributors: Nancy Aloo, Njeri Mbugua, Peter Kagwe and Kirole Ruto Melen and her mother know all too well the struggle of raising children single-handedly. When Melen’s mother...