NHRC HOLDS SEMINAR ON ADOLESCENT REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
NHRC HOLDS SEMINAR ON ADOLESCENT REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
MARCH 18, 2007
The Navrongo Health Research Centre., NHRC has held a dissemination seminar for stakeholders from the Ghana Education Service in the Kassena-Nankana district, the district health management team and local community.
The purpose of the seminar was to brief the stakeholders on key findings of research survey conducted in 2005 by the Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health ASRH project. The survey covered all junior high school students in the Kassena-Nankana district.
Giving an overview of the ASRH project intervention, Mr. Fabian Sebastian Achana said it sought to develop and implement a package of interventions that will provide accurate and reliable information, skills and services to rural adolescents.
Mr. Achana said the survey will then evaluate the impact of the intervention package on adolescent sexual behavior and reproductive health as well as the community’s acceptance and participation in the interventions. He noted that young people the world over engage in risky sexual behaviours and are therefore at the risk of teenage pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases.
He said it is against this background that the ASRH project has become necessary so as to provide health education, skills building and youth-friendly health services to adolescents in order for them to translate knowledge into responsible and healthy behavior.
A principal investigator of the ASRH project Dr. Cornelius Debpuur told stakeholders that schools play a very crucial role in the training and formation of children on whom Ghana’s future generation relies. Dr. Debpuur said as far as the ASRH school survey is concerned, teachers are a source of knowledge because students learn a lot of lessons from them. He thus challenged teachers to act as good role models for their students.
In his presentation, a staff of the NHRC, Mr. Solomon Atinbire said it will take the combined effort of the GES, the DHMT, the research centre and the community to address sexual and reproductive health problems of young people in the district.
A joint presentation by Madam Matilda Ako and Gifty Aninyana, revealed that a total of 6,540 pupils from 41 junior high schools in the Kassena-Nankana district were captured under the study.
Remarks: The above story was also broadcast on GBC URA Radio in the month of March, 2004. I was then reporting for the GBC.
MARCH 18, 2007
The Navrongo Health Research Centre., NHRC has held a dissemination seminar for stakeholders from the Ghana Education Service in the Kassena-Nankana district, the district health management team and local community.
The purpose of the seminar was to brief the stakeholders on key findings of research survey conducted in 2005 by the Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health ASRH project. The survey covered all junior high school students in the Kassena-Nankana district.
Giving an overview of the ASRH project intervention, Mr. Fabian Sebastian Achana said it sought to develop and implement a package of interventions that will provide accurate and reliable information, skills and services to rural adolescents.
Mr. Achana said the survey will then evaluate the impact of the intervention package on adolescent sexual behavior and reproductive health as well as the community’s acceptance and participation in the interventions. He noted that young people the world over engage in risky sexual behaviours and are therefore at the risk of teenage pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases.
He said it is against this background that the ASRH project has become necessary so as to provide health education, skills building and youth-friendly health services to adolescents in order for them to translate knowledge into responsible and healthy behavior.
A principal investigator of the ASRH project Dr. Cornelius Debpuur told stakeholders that schools play a very crucial role in the training and formation of children on whom Ghana’s future generation relies. Dr. Debpuur said as far as the ASRH school survey is concerned, teachers are a source of knowledge because students learn a lot of lessons from them. He thus challenged teachers to act as good role models for their students.
In his presentation, a staff of the NHRC, Mr. Solomon Atinbire said it will take the combined effort of the GES, the DHMT, the research centre and the community to address sexual and reproductive health problems of young people in the district.
A joint presentation by Madam Matilda Ako and Gifty Aninyana, revealed that a total of 6,540 pupils from 41 junior high schools in the Kassena-Nankana district were captured under the study.
Remarks: The above story was also broadcast on GBC URA Radio in the month of March, 2004. I was then reporting for the GBC.
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