Access to sexual and reproductive health services among adolescents and young people in primary health care centres in Ibadan, Nigeria

Authors

Emmanuel Adebayo¹ , Adesola Olumide¹ , Adedamola Adebayo¹ , Babatunde Oluwagbayela¹

1. Institute of Child Health, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

Conference / event

MEPI Close-out Ceremony: A joint Close-out Ceremony of BRAINS, STAMINA and UI-MEPI-J projects, July 2022 (Lagos, Nigeria)

Poster summary

This study mapped Sexual and Reproductive Health services available to adolescents across primary healthcare facilities in Ibadan. Twenty consenting facilities were drawn from a list of primary health care facilities in Ibadan. The facility head was interviewed in each facility. Questions about the types of SRH services available, special space, schedule, and time for adolescents, payment for services, etc, were asked. All respondents were females. Average number of years in service was 19 years. About 55% of the respondents were Nurses, 40% were community health extension workers while the rest were Community Health Officers. About 90% of the facilities offered SRH services to adolescents. Of these, about 50% offered SRH services for only 15–19-year-old adolescents. Services offered to adolescents include, family planning (40%), counselling services (90%), immunization, HIV and STI testing services (90%), and referral services. This study concludes that services available to adolescents are not universal.

Keywords

Universal health coverage, Sexual and reproductive health services, Adolescents

Research areas

Medicine

References

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Funding

1. Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health (No. D43 TW010140)

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Competing interests

No competing interests were disclosed.

Data availability statement

The datasets generated during and / or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

Creative Commons license

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