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Adolescent life skills education, uzbekistan, Bosnia
AND TAJIKISTAN
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FPH built local capacity to strengthen
life skills for adolescents in Navoi Oblast, Uzbekistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina
and Tajikistan.
These projects were implemented in partnership with Project HOPE's child survival project in Navoi,
the United Nations Population Fund
(UNFPA) in Bosnia and Mission East, Tajikistan.
Adolescence is a time for opportunity and change.
It is also a time of heightened vulnerabilities,
reflected partly in the increasing number of pregnancies
and abortions by girls under 18. Adolescent
reproductive health is an increasingly important
component in the health care system. The
development of life skills is crucial to the future of
this age group. |
Conducting a baseline survey,
September 2003 |
Reproductive health
risks faced by adolescents include:
- Early
pregnancy and childbearing, with elevated risks of
injury, illness and death for both mother and
infant;
- Unintended
pregnancy, often leading to unsafe abortion and its
complications;
- Sexual
transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS; and
- Sexual
violence and coercion, including rape and sexual
abuse.
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Tajikistan 2009-2010
Donors: Christian Bachschuster
Stiftung, Banque Pictet & Cie, Kanton Graubünden and FEDEVACO
  
Religious and community leaders, youths, teachers and
health providers brainstorming barriers, needs and
solutions (left & middle) .
Health providers training
in youth-friendly reproductive health services,
Penjikent (right), July 2009.
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Bosnia 2006 - 2008
Donor: UNFPA
  
Youth from Banja Luka and
Bihac (left and centre), Peers with poster (right)
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Project Activities,
Navoi, Uzbekistan 2004 - 2006
Donors: Care and Aid
Foundation, Fedevaco
A baseline assessment
identified gaps in knowledge about reproductive health
issues, including methods to protect themselves against
pregnancy, sexual transmitted infections and HIV/AIDS.
Important sources of
information for adolescents are medical
providers, printed materials, teachers and mass media.
As a result, some of
the achievements from the programme includes:
- Development
of a curriculum package in Russian and Uzbek for
teachers, peer educators and medical providers
- Production of
several short films
- Booklet on
reproductive health for adolescents and training
manual developed by adolescents for their peers
- Training of
64 peer educators
- Training of
Trainers (TOT) of 88 school teachers and medical
providers; and
- Establishment
of an adolescent-friendly reproductive health clinic
in Navoi City
- 3500 adolescents
reached by the programme
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