Training on Human Sexuality and Adolescent Friendly Health Services For Student Nurses

Forty-two (42) student nurses divided into two (2) batches were trained Adolescent Friendly Health Services from May 4-14, 2009. The capacity building workshop which took place at the AHI Youth Centre aimed at promoting learning in adolescent health services in order to improve the quality of care to adolescent clients. It was geared towards giving the health providers a better understanding of what constitutes Adolescent Friendly Health Services in order to improve the quality of services provided.

The 2 weeks programme was conducted in collaboration with the School of Nursing, Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH). It covered areas such as; Introduction to human sexuality; Sexuality across life span and sources of sexual learning; Overview of adolescent sexual and reproductive health Sexual attitudes and values clarification; Adolescent sexual health and sexual rights; STIs/HIV/AIDS; Teenage pregnancy/pregnancy options counseling; Sexual abuse; Sexual orientation and implication for service delivery; Client Flow Procedure/Follow-Up and Referrals including Home Visits; Assessing AYFHS: Data collection methods; Contraception; Breast and Testicular self examination and other related topics.

Interactive and participatory techniques were used during sessions to facilitate effective learning and role play, group assignments, demonstration, experience sharing, case scenarios and case studies were incorporated into the training.

Participants had the opportunity to express their thoughts on issues discussed.