Youth Urge Government to Strengthen Reproductive Health Education Programs

TLDR

• The appeal was made during a technical working session organised by the Ministry of Health through its Department of Reproductive, Maternal, and Child Health under the Adolescent Reproductive Health Programme.
• MOROGORO: YOUNG people have urged the government to strengthen reproductive health education programmes, saying wider access to accurate information is key to curbing sexually transmitted infections (STIs), reducing.
• The UMATI Tanzania youth representative, Kudra Polo, explained that many young people were being misled by false reproductive health information circulating on social media, often shared by people with no medical.
• He, therefore, urged youths to rely on information provided by qualified health professionals, warning that misinformation continues to fuel confusion about reproductive health issues.
• Young people should seek and trust reproductive health information provided by government health experts instead of relying on misleading messages circulating on social media,” Mr Polo observed.