From: Young people’s perception of sexual and reproductive health services in Kenya
Gender | Youth centres | Health centres/or integrated facilities |
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Girls | Increase of SRH service availability | Increase of SRH service availability |
▪ Full-time clinician | ▪ More services to be made available at facility (lab), maternity | |
▪ Available medication (STI) | ▪ Facility to be neat, attractive and well organised | |
▪ Establish more youth centres, especially in rural areas | Improve HSP attitude | |
Improve HSP attitude | ▪ Improve HSP approach & attitude: | |
▪ HSP to be more friendly | ▪ HSP to be more patient and friendly, not very elderly | |
Create awareness | Create awareness | |
▪ Sensitize YP on importance of youth centre through fun-activities, radio, posters, music entertainment, churches, | ▪ Advertise through radio | |
▪ Tell peers about service availability | ||
▪ Encourage openness among adolescents | ▪ Awareness creation on importance of services and VCT through seminars in churches, schools, community | |
▪ Advertise services through outreaches in community, have girls-talks | ||
▪ Give out educational materials, booklets, magazines | ▪ Organise community meetings: inform parents what goes on at youth centre | |
▪ Other resources - have library, games | Have a suggestions box | |
Note: Girls not able to give suggestions (12 yrs and 14 yrs) | Reduce waiting time | |
No response from some girls in one HC in Nairobi (FGD 05c on how services can be improved | ||
Boys | Increase SRH service availability | Increase SRH service availability |
▪ Set-up more youth centres | ▪ Wide range of services in same room | |
▪ MOH to be involved in addressing SRH of young people, support youth activities, peer education | ▪ Have proper service directions | |
▪ Have youth-only rooms | ||
▪ Set-up more services in rural areas (mobile clinics) | Improve HSP attitude | |
▪ Increase operating hours/night services (VCT) | ▪ HSP to be open and helpful | |
Improve HSP attitude | ▪ Confidentiality is important | |
▪ HSP to be friendly, kind, patient, polite, confidential, not have very elderly staff | Increase awareness creation of SRH services | |
Increase awareness creation of SRH services | ▪ Create awareness of services available, having seminars, free medical campaigns, use of artists | |
▪ Create awareness of youth centre – through outreaches, advertising in sporting activities, websites | ▪ Involve the youth in mobilising other youths/Peer education | |
▪ Have youth talk to other youths about the services available | Reduce waiting time | |
▪ Take the education to the schools | Have educational materials | |
Youth centre accessibility | ▪ Have educational materials on SRH problems and treatment options | |
▪ Location of youth centre should be accessible, close to public transport | Other resources – have library | |
Have educational materials | In one FGD boys were not sure of what can be done to increase access | |
▪ Update educational materials |