Commitment title:

(ii)2. Unmet needs in family planning (FP) within adolescents/young people

Commitment description:

The large proportion of young people highlights the need to focus on adolescent and youth health, particularly sexual and reproductive health, where unmet needs for family planning stand at 23.3 per cent for rural adolescents, and on empowering young people, particularly young women, to exercise their rights. Persistent adolescent pregnancy is linked to early sexual initiation without protection, the absence of comprehensive sex education, variable quality and accessibility of health services for youth, as well as gender inequality, poverty and social marginalization.

Moreover, there is a need to increase the low demand for sexual and reproductive health services by the male adult population. With the need to fully respond to the commitments made by the Government, the Ministry of Health has outlined interventions aimed at the access of adolescents and young people to sexual and reproductive health services, through the creation of specific spaces in health centers for adolescents in 75% of the health centers until 2021, with an integrated, cross-sectoral approach, with schools and the community, to demystify stereotypes and prejudices in order to enhance the empowerment work of adolescents and young people, an increase in access to contraceptive methods, reduction of unmet needs in PF, reduction of teenage pregnancy.

The increasing training of adolescents and young people in sexual and reproductive health, in partnership with schools and NGOs, will enable the participation of young people, the training of other young people and the achievement of objectives.