After his 15-year-old daughter gave birth, Daniel Otieno overcame taboos on discussing sex with his children to become an advocate for youth access to reproductive health services and contraceptives. Jhpiego, with funding from Merck for Mothers and in partnership with the Kenya Red Cross, launched the G-Amini project in 2016 to empower adolescents and help them safely transition into healthy childbearing and fully realize their potential to build a brighter future for themselves.
After learning about the men’s clinic at Scott Hospital from a colleague, Lebamang Moiloa decided to go there for HIV services and explore voluntary medical male circumcision, a key prevention intervention. “I was nervous,” the 27-year-old student admitted. “I didn’t know what to expect. Who was going to assist me? How would I deal with
A Nigerian father gets the message about maternal and newborn health. Several months ago, Israel Nwafor’s mobile phone buzzed with a message alerting him that “labor could start anytime now.” He read it in full, sharing aloud what he was learning about the signs of labor—some subtle, some not—with his wife, Monica, who, at the
