{"id":9729,"date":"2013-08-14T08:11:48","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T08:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/meeting-discusses-adolescent-reproductive-sexual\/"},"modified":"2013-08-17T09:31:14","modified_gmt":"2013-08-17T09:31:14","slug":"meeting-discusses-adolescent-reproductive-sexual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/meeting-discusses-adolescent-reproductive-sexual\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting Discusses Adolescent Reproductive &#038; Sexual Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{A meeting on Experience &#038; Knowledge Sharing  was held August 13, by Imbuto Foundation at the Hill Top Hotel in Kigali.}} <\/p>\n<p>Several health and Adolescents Sexual Reproductive Health &#038;Rights (ASRH&#038;R) stakeholders attended, including executive staff from health centers, Directors of health \u201c one  from all districts\u201d, peer educators, teachers, heads of schools, ASRH&#038;R clubs presidents, as well as representatives from the Ministry of Health, UNFPA and Districts Social Affairs. Around 220 participants attended.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the meeting was for stakeholders to share experiences, best practices and lessons learnt on ASRH&#038;R information and services. <\/p>\n<p>As indicated in the 2011-2015 National Strategic Plan, there is a strong need for youth-friendly sexual and reproductive health services. <\/p>\n<p>This health issue has remained a priority for developing countries ever since the Call for universal access to reproductive health made at the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, Egypt. <\/p>\n<p>Since then, Rwanda has developed a new ASRH&#038;R Policy and Strategic Plan to address key demands in this area, including challenges related to HIV\/AIDS and unwanted pregnancies among the youth.<\/p>\n<p>In line with the government\u2019s efforts to ensure that Rwandan youth are well informed about sexual and reproductive health, Imbuto Foundation has been implementing the ASRH&#038;R Project for the last 3 years. <\/p>\n<p>This initiative is based on pairing schools, community and health centers to provide adolescents and young adults with adequate knowledge and services on sexual reproductive health issues.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-3404 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/picture_2_-_asrh.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{A meeting on Experience &#038; Knowledge Sharing was held August 13, by Imbuto Foundation at the Hill Top Hotel in Kigali.}} Several health and Adolescents Sexual Reproductive Health &#038;Rights (ASRH&#038;R) stakeholders attended, including executive staff from health centers, Directors of health \u201c one from all districts\u201d, peer educators, teachers, heads of schools, ASRH&#038;R clubs presidents, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-9729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9729"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=9729"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=9729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}