Delivery of Youth Friendly Services in Kenya: Towards A Targeted Approach

Abstract

The Adolescent Reproductive Health and Development Policy respond to the concerns of youths and bring their reproductive health issues into the development limelight as a whole. This policy has been pivotal in championing reproductive health issues of the youths and this has paved way to the development of the Plan of Action to strengthen commitment, partnership, networking and collaboration as well as resource mobilization efforts among stakeholders.

In the delivery of Youth Friendly Services, the minimum conditions set by the Ministry of Health should be met in order to call it ‘youth friendly’. These minimum conditions include: affordability and accessibility, safe and basic range of services, privacy and confidentiality, provider competence and attitude, reliability and sustainability and an inbuilt monitoring and evaluation system.

Key words: Youth Friendly Services (YFS), targeted approach, integrated approach