Ghana's Youth Commitments: Universal SRHR in the context of UHC
Commitment description:Youth commit to:
-Advocate for availability of quality and disaggregated data to help in programming and SRHR service delivery
-Ensure persons with disabilities are not discriminated against accessing Family planning information and services
-Advocate for the completion/ rehabilitation of infrastructure, including roads, hospitals, clinics, and Community-Based Health Planning and Services (CHPS), irrespective of change in government
-Advocate for the availability and accessibility of Family Planning services to diverse groups of young people
-Advocate for equitable distribution of resources for health facilities across all geographic regions
-Advocate for adolescent and youth friendly SRHR services and safe spaces in community hospitals and health centers near them
-Commit to honoring postings (as health professionals) to rural areas, and also commit to follow-up and advocacy so that fellow young health professionals do same
-Advocate for the inclusion of sexual and reproductive health services in the National Health Insurance Scheme package
-Increase SRHR campaign and education to create awareness among adolescents and youth in Ghana
Mode of engagement:
- Programmatic actionGhanaian youth led by AfriYAN Ghana and YoLe Fellows have organized a consultative event for young people to deliberate and have a unified front on the commitments that is representative of young people in Ghana at the Nairobi Summit.
Achieve universal access to sexual and reproductive health as a part of universal health coverage (UHC)(4) Access for all adolescents and youth, especially girls, to comprehensive and age-responsive information, education and adolescent-friendly comprehensive, quality and timely services to be able to make free and informed decisions and choices about their sexuality and reproductive lives, to adequately protect themselves from unintended pregnancies, all forms of sexual and gender-based violence and harmful practices, sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS, to facilitate a safe transition into adulthood.
