HRH's HEALTH  ADVOCACY CAMPAIGNS

Her Royal Highness has addressed numerous workshops of policy makers, community leaders, students and school heads, youth groups, cultural leaders and opinion leaders on issues of adolescent sexual reproductive health and HIV/AIDS to raise awareness and stimulate discussion. Over the period of 2003-2007 HRH has addressed over 10,000 people in such fora.

SEXUAL REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH

1. STI/HIV/AIDS.
•    Workshops
•    Public gatherings
•    Official Events

2. ADOLESCENT REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH

Early and unprotected sex
Unwanted pregnancy
Unsafe abortion

STI and HIV/AIDS

Anti Cross generation Sex Campaign. (CGS)

NDF in partnership with Population services international (PSI), is implementing a campaign among young people to desist from engaging in sexual relationships with men who are much older than them. This has been based on the findings that Sexual relationships between young adolescent women and older men pose a significant risk for younger women, a risk of HIV and other STDs.

Formative research revealed that the majority of young girls in CGS relationships noted that meeting short-term goals was the primary motivation in such relationships. “Sugar Daddies” (as the older men are commonly referred to) often pay as little as a plate of chips or cosmetics for sex. Sadly young women often do not consider the long-term consequences, including HIV.

Under this campaign,