Youths in Zambia have limited access to information concerning Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH) and this puts them at risk of unwanted pregnancy. The Research Initiative to Support the Empowerment of Girls (RISE) is a cluster randomized testing the effectiveness of different support packages on...
Download PDF ↓An estimated 80,000 adolescents (10-19 years) are living with HIV in Zambia (UNICEF, 2011). As they mature into adulthood, adolescents encounter challenges related to sexuality and sexual reproductive health (SRH), coupled with dealing with a complex condition such as HIV infection. The current...
Download PDF ↓Cases of child pregnancies and early marriages have been reported in most parts of Africa including Zambia. Interventions have been implemented in order to address these challenges. These interventions includes the girl child re-entry policy: an educational policy that allows for girls who fall...
Download PDF ↓The Zambian government faces great problems in the provision of good health care services to its people. To respond to this Zambia has been in the process of an ambitious program of health sector decentralization by adopting successive policies in past years. For example, the ―National Health...
Download PDF ↓In Zambia, approximately 7.2% of sexually active girls, aged 15-19, reported having had a sexual partner. The National Health Strategic Plan 2017-2021 highlighted the high adolescent birth rate which was at 141 per 1000 live births between the year’s 2013 and 2014. According to the laws of...
Download PDF ↓Community-based participatory strategies are collaborative approaches that equitably involve all partners in the process and recognize the unique strengths that each brings. The Alma Ata Declaration in 1978 framed community participation as central to primary health care. One of the...
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