General Objective:
Provide adolescents and youth with appropriate information and life skills to enable them to cope with issues related to their sexual and full development of adulthood.
Specific Objectives:
- Reduce the incidence of pregnancy among 10-19 age group;
- Reduce the occurrence of early sexual involvement and early marriages;
- Reduce the incidence the Reproductive Health problems like STIs and
HIV/ AIDS, and in particular, decrease the number of HIV-positive cases
among young males, - Equip parents with necessary knowledge on adolescent sexual and
reproductive health concerns as well as skills on how to communicate
such concerns with their adolescent children; - Deliver age-appropriate, updated, and gender-sensitive information on
their sexual and reproductive health concerns
Program Strategies:
- Set-up and mobilize an effective Information and Service Delivery Network (ISDN);
- Sustainable provision of Teenage Pregnancy Symposiums (TPS), Breaking the Barrier Sessions (BTBS), and Peer Helping Program;
- Optimize new information and communication technologies to reach out to adolescents (i.e. U4U); and
- Continuing the development of more multimedia advocacy/IEC materials that support and promote adolescent development issues and concerns particularly in the prevention of unintended pregnancy, STI, and HIV/AIDS infections (i.e. films)