UNFPA inculcates innovation in SRH rights

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), formerly the United Nations Fund for Population Activities, held an innovation workshop to integrate sexual reproductive health (SRH) issues last Friday in Gaborone.

The workshop participants included a medley of professionals, journalists, ICT practitioners, research assistants, teachers and youth activists.

Briefing attendees, UNPFA assistant representative for the Botswana office, Mareledi Segotso, said the idea was to find a collectively developed innovation idea that would be presented to the Ministry of Health, as an initiative to address challenges the country faces around issues of reproductive health, such as teenage pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS, among youth. 

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