Hiv/Disease And Adolescent Reproductive Health Programs In Rubaga Division (Case Study Muvubuka Agunjuse)

ABSTRACT

There is an increasing worldwide concern ahout adolescent's health and de,·eiopment

problems. These health problems relate more particularly to the reproductive health.

This is an area where adolescents are fast growing physically. emotionally and morally.

The adolescents at this stage are always curious to find out different things including

sexual practices, relationships, socializing and modeling behaviours.

The researcher's aim was to assess the ARH programs available, percentage of those

adolescents that are HIV positive, barriers to the accessibility of the programs and lastly

to check whether HIV /Disease infection rate depends on the ARH programs available at

the health centre.

There are quite a number of services that were found to be provided by Muvubuka

Agunjuse as a teenage centre and these include STD/STI management and treatment ,

HIV counseling and testing , Guidance and counseling on sexually related issues ,

Family planning (e.g. issuing condoms and contraceptives). Outreach of the youth and

sensitization. Antenatal care ,Post abortion care and General Medical services.

An analysis of variance was done and the result shows that there is a relationship

between HIV prevalence and the ARH programs provided by the heal,th provider. Hence

HIV/Disease depends on the services delivered.

A nwnber of factors have affected the ARH service delivery, these include: in adequate

funding, lack of Parents and community supp01t, inadequate ARH trained health workers, lack of support supervision and inadequate drugs and equipment. In spite of all these inadequacies, majority of health providers are fhendly when serving adolescents.