Contraception: young people involved

Caroline Paré surrounded by young advisers from the Fass counseling and animation center for adolescents in Dakar, Senegal © RFI / Ophélie Lahccen

By: Caroline Paré Follow

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Engaging in a romantic relationship, when you do not want to start a family, requires access to contraception, to have products or methods to prevent conception.

But today, according to the WHO, 225 million women in developing countries do not have access to this contraception, despite their wish to delay or prevent pregnancy.

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Delocalized program in Dakar, Senegal

As a result, nearly 16 million young girls, aged 15 to 19, give birth to children each year.

How to promote awareness, information and prevention?

How did young people tackle this problem in Senegal?

What are the material and cultural obstacles or blockages to access to contraceptive methods and products?

  • Dr Senan Hodonou,

    Adolescents and Youth Expert,

    UNFPA

    Regional Office

    - West and Central Africa

  • Pety Badji

    , Activist for sexual and reproductive health and rights

  • Awa Diouf,

    midwife for

    the NGO Marie Stopes Senegal

  • Prissy LaDégammeuse,

    actress, choreographer, hairdresser, designer, humorist, web influencer and Ivorian columnist.

    Actress in the web-series " 

    Let's be regular

     " on adolescent menstrual hygiene

  • Mabingué Ngom

    , UNFPA Regional Director General for the West and Central Africa region (WCARO)

  • Report at the counseling and animation center for adolescents in the municipality of FASS

A program produced in partnership with the

French Muskoka Fund

which aims to reduce maternal, neonatal and infant mortality in eight French-speaking African countries.

Recording of the round table of young referents of the counseling and animation center for adolescents of Fass in Dakar, Senegal.

From left to right: Fatoumata, Coumba, Babacar and Abdoulaye © RFI / Ophélie Lahccen

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