Providing appropriate health care for adolescents and young people requires understanding specific aspects of their development and addressing the issues they face which fluctuate throughout the period of their development. SIPACIO intends to introduce the strategy to the health and social services providers to support adolescents and youth in an appropriate, friendly manner while accessing the comprehensive quality integrated SRHR/HIV/SGBV services in Chiradzulo, Malawi.
Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights is another major area affecting all adolescents and youth regardless of their HIV status. While sexual awareness is high among adolescents, 12% of the 10-14 years and 56% of the 15-19 years adolescents are having sexual relationships with a younger or older partner according to the Malawi Youth Friendly Health Services (YFHS) report Among adolescent girls aged 13-17 years, 1 in 5 girls (22.8%) experience sexual abuse with 77.3% having multiple incidences.
The aim of this project is to improve the quality of integrated sexual reproductive health rights, HIV and sexual gender-based violence to both infected and affected adolescents and youth in Chiradzulu
Increase access to comprehensive and quality health care and support for adolescents and youth in Chiradzulu district, Malawi. Provide a peer support network, safe and positive environment in a confidential forum for adolescents to address the many challenges they face when living with HIV by the end of the year Improve the quality of life, treatment outcome, and access to adolescent-friendly HIV care for the ALHIV by ensuring that at least 95% of the targeted ALHIV are retained in care
This project has provided additional documentation in a DOCX file (projdoc.docx).
