They provide adolescents with condoms, pills, sexuality education, and referrals to reproductive health clinics. In order to reach a greater number of street children, project staff conduct night outreach in corners where street children tend to congregate. The Adolescent Friendly Reproductive Health Project is implemented in a densely populated, long established slum area of Kampala. The majority of residents are very poor and unemployment is high. Living quarters are overcrowded, usually with one source of water and a latrine for several households.
Residents are predominantly Muslim.
Adolescent girls marry very early, and education for boys is preferred over that for girls. In the field, peer fieldworkers provide clients 19 years old and younger with contraceptive services and education to help them make informed decisions about their reproductive lives. The project also has an adolescent clinic with a youth-friendly environment in which teens have access to affordable and confidential reproductive health services, such as manual vacuum aspiration procedures, Pap smears, pregnancy tests, and STI exams and treatments. To view the rest of the Planned Parenthood Web site, please use the links below.