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Navrongo (UE), Aug 23, GNA – The Navrongo Health Research Centre (NHRC), in the Kassena Nankana East District in the Upper East Region, is to deepen tutoring on adolescent sexual and reproductive vigor.

This followed an explore conducted by the Centre towards realistic interventions to polish on the sexual and reproductive shape of adolescents in districts.

This was disclosed by Dr Abraham Hodgson, Director for the Centre, at a day’s tutorial orderly by the NHRC in collaboration with the Ghana Education Service for District Directors of Education, Circuit Supervisors, Head teachers and civil union organisations at Navrongo at the weekend.

The report expected at investigating the sexual and reproductive behaviour of adolescents in districts and to develop and employ a present of interventions to advance adolescent sexual and reproductive wellbeing.

It was also to evaluate the waves of interventions on adolescent sexual and reproductive strength, conceded out ahead and test society reactions to the interventions.

Among other things, the NHRC is to fashion a protected and supportive environment for adoptions of strong behaviours by adolescents.

In line with the targets of the subject adolescent reproductive vigor policy, the interventions would take to compose the lessening of redundant pregnancy, prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases and unprotected sex, manifold sexual partners, sexual stake behaviour and to enhance babyish people’s access to and utilization of reproductive wellbeing army.

Dr Abraham Hodgson, Director for the Centre, famous that over the existence the gift had been focusing on malaria, celebro-spinal meningitis, strength tune escape, family planning and female genital mutilation.

He said consequently, the Centre had urbanized adolescent sexual and reproductive wellbeing scheme to examine adolescent issues in the ward.

Dr Hodgson said the envisage would mean using peer educators and adult mentors to teach adolescent sexual and reproductive vigor in schools, churches through video shows and playoffs.

Dr John Williams, a research fellow at the Centre, presented an overview of the Navrongo adolescent wellbeing envisage and pains at promoting of adolescent sexual and reproductive vigor in the Kassena Nankana District.

He imminent that the programme targeted little people between ten and 24 years because most programmes of the Centre could not impart for the fitness requests of adolescents.

Dr. Williams mentioned that the fling was to afford proof on how to bring adolescent sexual reproductive health information and navy in rural communities and their force on behaviour.

He disclosed that the intervention part would contain unity mobilisation and sensitisations, peer education with adult mentorship, train-based sexual health education, youth affable services, and livelihood skills teaching.

Dr Cornelius Debpuur, Research Officer, explained that a past measure carried out by the project showed that about 95 percent of babies people in the topic were not conversant with issues concerning their health and did not know that one could get pregnant having sex for the first time.