Sakina Belekina, another young person accessing services from Golomoti health center, said the Comprehensive Sexuality Education - CSE that the young people were accessing has improved the working relationship between the health care workers and the young people.

“These programmes have reduced incidents of Early Unintended Pregnancies, EUP among the youth as we can now easily access health services at health facilities, we now have the youth friendly sexual reproductive health services at the health facility which have promoted SRH uptake among young people,” she said.

For Nefa John another member of Tiyese Club at Golomoti her participation at the youth club has assisted many youth to avoid underage pregnancies including HIV infection.

“We are mostly encouraged to abstain from sex, but we are further advised that if we can’t abstain we have to assess prevention measures such as condoms and other forms of contraception,” she said.

Nefa said these initiatives had witnessed a drop in child marriages following the decrease in Early Unintended Pregnancies.

“Currently we easily access condoms at the health center and the positive side of these initiatives has been that many girls are continuing with their education,” she said.

Elson Mwachande from Unity Youth Club said that the youth in the area were now understanding their responsibility to protect themselves from sexually transmitted infections including HIV and AIDS.