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Assessing the Performance of Alternative Youth Center Models
Working with the Ministry of Health’s Reproductive Health Research Unit, FRONTIERS assessed the effectiveness of several South African youth centers as sources of reproductive health services. The study showed that the majority of adolescents in the vicinity of the youth centers are aware of the centers. Most clients are sexually experienced, suggesting that they are potential reproductive health service clients. Most visitors are female, out of school, and older than the target group of adolescents. There is considerable variation in the annual costs of the youth centers due to the type and cost of services provided and the number of visits by youth.
Location
South Africa
Duration
August 2000–August 2001
Population Council researchers
Ndugga Maggwa, Annabel Erulkar, Ian Askew
Non-Council collaborators
Department of Health
Planned Parenthood Association of South Africa
Reproductive Health Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
UK Department for International Development
United Nations Population Fund
Donor
US Agency for International Development
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"South Africa: Youth centers: A costly way to provide reproductive health services" (2007) (full text) "The costs of programmes at selected youth centres in South Africa" (2003) (PDF) "An assessment of youth centres in South Africa" (2001) (PDF) |