Comprehensive quality care for adolescents
UNICEF works to strengthen capacities by training and educating health and allied personnel
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Challenges
By 2024, adolescents from selected provinces will have more knowledge about their health, through promotion and prevention services with intersectoral participation, however there will be weaknesses in the implementation of comprehensive health care programs for adolescents, with threats including a high adolescent fertility rate and information gaps on adolescent nutritional status.
In addition, UNICEF faces risk behaviours (accidents, responsible sexuality, STIs, HIV/AIDS) among adolescents.
Strategies
The component responds to UNICEF national commitments and programmatic principles for the second decade of life by strengthening capacities and equipping health and allied personnel with essential tools and supplies to provide multi-sectoral, gender-sensitive and comprehensive health care for adolescents.
UNICEF works to develop sustainability and resilience capacities, as well as effective participation of adolescents to promote healthy behavioural changes in the prevention of risk behaviors like pregnancy, road accidents, STIs, and HIV.
In addition, UNICEF strengthens capacities by training and educating personnel from health and other sectors.
UNICEF also develops Communication for Development strategies about issues related to comprehensive health care, prevention of risk behaviour, road safety education, responsible sexuality, STIs-HIV prevention, and nutrition.
Furthermore, UNICEF carries out intersectoral integration studies through work with the education sector in the field of secondary education, as well as adolescent-related gender studies and researches.