Aug 11, 2020 | AYSRH, COVID-19, East Africa, TCI News
Kenyan Youth Advocate Sees Greater Need for AYSRH Information and Services During COVID-19 Contributors: Morine Sirera, Denis Sama and Njeri Mbugua According to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), one in every five girls between the ages of 15 and 19 years...
May 11, 2020 | AYSRH, COVID-19, Nigeria, TCI News
Ogun State Youth Ambassador Takes to YouTube During COVID-19 to Share Reproductive Health Advice The threat of COVID-19 has brought young people in Nigeria indoors – often away from school and social events with friends. Sounds boring, right? Not for Chinenye Ikeobi,...
Jan 6, 2020 | AYSRH, India, TCI News
ASHAs Promote Family Planning by Building Relationships with Key Decision-Makers by The TCIHC Team For the past two years, Laxmi has worked as an accredited social health activist (ASHA) in the Ramnagar area of Firozabad city (Uttar Pradesh, India). Laxmi organizes...
Nov 22, 2019 | AYSRH, East Africa, TCI News
Kathryn Walsh Contributors: Njeri Mbugua and Nancy Aloo Movinta Akinyi is a student in Migori County, Kenya, who wants to stay in school because she hopes to become a surgeon one day. This is why she decided to get a contraceptive implant from a health facility...
Oct 11, 2019 | AYSRH, East Africa, TCI News
Contributors: Njeri Mbugua and Tom Maritim Despite having a family planning program, Nyamira County had a limited budget and capacity among health workers to meet the sexual and reproductive health needs of adolescents and youth. This challenged the county’s ability...
Sep 19, 2019 | AYSRH, East Africa, TCI News
Kilifi County, Kenya, has a teenage pregnancy rate that remains stubbornly high. Despite efforts by various stakeholders to find solutions, many school-age girls still find themselves pregnant. While an estimated 18.4% of girls ages 15-19 across Kenya have begun child...
