30Jun/10Off
TANZANIA: Health Providers, Educators and Students Campaign for Youth Contraceptive Access
The Guardian reported on 30 June that in an effort to reduce adolescent pregnancies, health providers, teachers and students in Turiani Province are lobbying government officials to open contraceptive access for young people. According to a research project conducted by the Youth Africa Alliance with support from UNFPA, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Pathfinder International, and the Programme for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), lack of attention to adolescents’ sexual and reproductive health in policy and programming is a serious challenge. While Tanzania’s laws support full access to youth-friendly sexual and reproductive health services, the report found that numerous barriers remain to fully implementing these laws.