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Since last year, we have been increasingly asked to resume or continue our engagement
in the Karonga district in the area of family planning, which we started in 2013,
especially against the background that there is still a high demand among the population
in the Karonga district for sexual and reproductive health education and services.
A survey conducted in the district among adolescent women and young girls showed
that despite some progress in recent years, there is still a high demand for sexual
and reproductive health education and services:
- 1 in 3 girls had a child between the ages of 15 and 19; of these, almost half had
a child before their 18th birthday.
- more than 1 in 3 pregnancies among women and girls between 15 and 24 years of age
were unintended.
● only 1 in 3 women of this age used contraceptives
- less than half of these women know how to prevent sexual transmission of HIV
● fewer than 2 in 3 women in this age group who have recently visited a health facility
have been informed about family planning
We have therefore decided to continue our related activities in Karonga. Therefore,
since the beginning of November, we are funding a new project, again carried out
locally by the Pamoza-Tingakwaniska team, with which we continue to pursue the following
goals:
● Education on sexual and reproductive health issues
● Promotion and expansion of youth-friendly health services
● Improved and simplified access to contraceptives
● Strengthening the rights of adolescent girls and young women
- Limit population growth through family planning and voluntary birth control.
In order to achieve these goals as quickly and effectively as possible, existing
structures that are already points of contact for our target group, in particular
health centres and youth clubs, are to be integrated and provided with the financial
and human resources necessary for these tasks.
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