Youth and Teen Pregnancy Health Discussion.
Youth and Teen Pregnancy Health Discussion.
Student reply Tannicia Ford Title: Youth and teen pregnancy prevention/education program in Mauritania Background of the project: In Mauritania, the modern contraceptive prevalence rate for all women is persistently low at 9.6% and one in five women aged 20 to 24 years old gave birth before the age of 18 (Advance Family Planning, 2017). Mauritanian adolescents’ lack of sexual health knowledge and fear of being stigmatized within a conservative socio-cultural environment limits their access to and availability of reproductive health services (Advance Family Planning, 2017). Lack of access to contraception, early pregnancies, and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are some of the main challenges youth and teens face. Purpose of the project: The purpose of this project is to help Mauritania’s efforts to make sexual health resources and pregnancy prevention tools more accessible to adolescents.
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This project aims to ease access to safe contraception methods, including birth control, and provide educational resources about pregnancy, STIs, and consent. Method: The target population for this project would be youth from 11 to 19 years of age. This population was chosen because many people in Mauritania give birth before the age of 18, and many adolescents lack the sexual health knowledge necessary to know how to prevent pregnancy and practice safe sex (European Commission, 2022). Many teenagers begin having sex between the ages of 15 and 17 and some people in Mauritania get pregnant as young as 13 or 14 years old, thus it is important to teach them about sexual health before then. Getting pregnant at the age of 13 or 14, or contracting an STI and not knowing how to treat it, are both potentially lifethreatening situations. A teen pregnancy prevention/education program can help reduce the number of teenage pregnancies and the number of contracted and untreated STIs.
The best place to offer a pregnancy prevention/education program would be in the schools. A series of age-appropriate lessons should be delivered to students ages 11-19, and they should be taught detailed information about how to keep themselves safe and healthy. Since it is taboo in Mauritania for parents to talk to their children about sex and birth control (European Commission, 2022), this project could be difficult to implement at some schools if teachers or parents are opposed. If this were the case, a mobile pop-up clinic could be opened up to go around and teach youth what they need to know about sexual health and provide contraceptives. Pop-up clinics are convenient because they can bring health education resources directly to people in need.
I imagine that I would have a team of healthcare providers and experts ready to have conversations with the local youth about sexual health, hand out contraceptives and explain how they are used, and even give lectures to groups. Outcome and rationale: With this project, I hope to bring down the rate of teenage pregnancy in Mauritania and bring up the rate of contraceptive use. I also hope to reduce misinformation about sex, teen pregnancy, and STIs. I think this could make a difference in the living conditions of my target population by strengthening their ability to make informed decisions about their sexual and reproductive health. References Advance Family Planning. (2017). The government of Mauritania expands access to free reproductive health services to youth. https://www.advancefamilyplanning.org/governmentmauritania-expands-access-free-reproductive-health-servicesyouth#:~:text=In%20Mauritania%2C%20the%20modern%20contraceptive,before%20the%20ag e%20of%2018. European Commission. (2022). Mauritania: Breaking down sexual taboos, improving the health of refugees. European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations. https://ec.europa.eu/echo/news-stories/stories/mauritania-breaking-down-sexual-taboosimproving-health-refugees_en Student reply Anthony Mccarthy Week 3 You receive a letter in the mail. The letter is from the American Psychological Association (APA), and it grants you $150,000 in funds to visit any country in the world and set up a project there.
Your project could be educational, health-related, or based on anything else. Title: Philippines Family Welfare Program Background of the project: Since 2016, The War on Drugs has been waging in the Philippines. This war has affected the lives of numerous children and their families. The deaths of the ‘breadwinner’ of families has led to psycho-social trauma and economic hardships, with children having to quit school to work. (World Report 2020) The families are being ostracized from their communities causing them to be driven to extreme poverty and ending up on the streets. (World Report 2020) Purpose of the project: The purpose of the project will be to assist the families dealing with economic hardships and ending up on the streets. The program will provide counseling and financial aid to get them off the streets and in a better position in life. The parents will be provided with assistance to find work to support their families without the help of their children, so that their children can go back to school. Participants: The people struggling economically and ending on the streets due to the war on drugs will be the participants for the program. This is to help parents get back on their feet financially to provide for their families and for the children to get back to being kids and going back to school. Method: We will need a building that can provide temporary lodging and subsistence for the participants. We will require beds, bedding, food, toiletries, and clothing. These essentials can be purchased or collected through donations. Also, we will need volunteer workers to help with handing out essentials, cooking and serving food, and to help maintain the facility. We will also need counselors to counsel the families. Process: We will need to locate people in need, in order to do this, we will ask around to find people who need assistance. Also, we will put up flyers advertising our program.
Once families arrive, they will go through an interview asking about their situation and an initial counseling session to make sure that they are not a danger to themselves or others. Next, the will go through an orientation about the program and be provided with essential goods. We will have a schedule for the family to attend counseling sessions and the parent will be helped with job placement. Once the family is able to take care of themselves, they will go through another interview about their experience and provide feedback for the program. Outcome and rationale: I hope to help the families who are suffering from economic hardship. I would like to see the parents able to support their family and their children able to go back to school. With less people on the streets, hopefully, the living conditions of the area affected by the ‘War on Drugs’ can be improved. The families have been ostracized by their communities, but hopefully through our program they can be accepted back into their community. References: World Report 2020: Rights Trends in Philippines https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2020/country-chapters/philippines
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Youth and Teen Pregnancy Health Discussion.
Youth and Teen Pregnancy
Youth and Teen Pregnancy Health Discussion.