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The project aims to:
- train health staff
- refurbish clinics to appeal more to adolescents
- train young people as peer counsellors
- encourage awareness about adolescent health and family planning
- encourage young people to demand good quality and adolescent-friendly sexual and reproductive health services.
Peer counselling encourages discussion within the communities on adolescent health and family planning issues and other concerns including alcohol and drug abuse and underage sex. Traditional practices such as early marriages are also being challenged.
Health Poverty Action has worked to improve the health of indigenous people in Namibia since 1991.This project in the remote Omaheke and Tsumkwe regions began in 2006 and is being implemented in partnership with the Namibian Ministry of Health.
