Summary

In this Study Session, you have learnt that:

• Adolescents and youth RH services include information and counselling, promotion of healthy sexual behaviours, FP, condom promotion and provision, HIV counselling and testing, etc
• There are different barriers to adolescent and youth reproductive health services which address the perspective of individual (e.g. residence), institutional (e.g. timing and cost), and social/cultural (e.g. peer pressure) factors.
• Developing a positive attitude towards young people's sexual and RH needs, providing appropriate information, recognising that young people have the right to access RH information and services, are some of the interventions to overcome the service barriers.
• The establishment and organisation of youth recreation facilities can be done through the involvement of the youth and other community members, through discussion, to identify the needs, prioritise the needs and developing proposal and action plan on the prioritised needs.
• Making recreation activities as a significant opportunity it is very helpful to design strategies to provide different youth reproductive health services including awareness creation on particular topics of interest. Youth day can also be organised to promote these services through dramas, questions and answers sessions, dialogues and short writings.