Improve Youth-Friendly Health Services

SIX MONTHS LATER… KABALE DISTRICT Without access to family planning, many Girls who stay in school longer are less Ayebare, you are too When I went to the young women in Kabale District experience likely to become pregnant early. young. I will not give clinic, the staff told Improve Youth-Friendly you family planning. What do I do now? my parents! Oh no! I’m pregnant. unplanned pregnancies. Health care providers who TEENAGE GIRLS WHO HAVE BEGUN CHILDBEARING Health Services receive youth-friendly

35% service training treat 29% young people with respect and support their needs. 16% 17% Young people become of women 11% more comfortable seeking ages 15-19 services and more likely to have begun access family planning. childbearing. No education Primary Secondary More than school school secondary schooling IF PROVIDERS WERE TRAINED... DECISIONMAKERS SHOULD: DECISIONMAKERS SHOULD: DECISIONMAKERS SHOULD: With greater access to Let me tell you about family planning, more Decisionmakers the different family young people in Kabale SOURCES planning methods. District can avoid have a Prioritize funding for Population Reference Bureau and the International unplanned pregnancies, responsibility public-sector health Include youth-friendly Educate communities Youth Alliance for Family Planning, “Empowering stay in school longer, Evidence-Driven Advocacy Among Youth Ages 15 and contribute more to to ensure that all care providers’ training services training in health on the importance of to 24 in Kampala, Kabale, and Mayuge Districts,” the economy as adults. health services on youth-friendly care providers’ existing making health facilities unpublished research, October-November 2018. in Kabale services in the 2020- refresher trainings. youth-friendly. Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) and ICF, Uganda Demographic and Health Survey 2016 District are 2021 district budget. (Kampala, Uganda and Rockville, MD: UBOS and youth-friendly. ICF, 2018).