Narok County hosted a three-day cluster meeting from February 11th to 13th, 2025, bringing together health professionals, and county directors to discuss key strategies for improving Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH) across several counties. The meeting focused on the the A360 program and its efforts to institutionalize adolescent health initiatives within government systems. The event...

Evidence suggests youth aged 15-24 across many countries struggle to continue contraceptive use, with contraceptive discontinuation rates 25% higher than that of older women. Method-related side effects have been identified as the leading cause of discontinuation for adolescents, but other drivers include changing reproductive needs (i.e. period of abstinence), evolving reproductive intentions (i.e. a desire...

Once upon a time in the quiet community of Rugan Kasuwa, nestled within the Karu Local Government Area in Nasarawa state Nigeria lived 18-year-old Zuwaira Abdullahi. A young bride married to Mr. Isa, a diligent farmer, Zuwaira found herself facing unexpected challenges mere months into her marriage. The source of her distress wasn’t external but...

Zainab Abdullahi’s husband wasn’t the open-minded type. He was not much older than Zainab, who was eighteen years old and five months pregnant. In their community, the Ringim Local Government Area, Jigawa state, teenage brides aren’t a novelty. They were not in the habit of conversing except when asking for money for medical expenses. One...

Bilki Lawan. Married at 16, pregnant at 19, and now a full-time housewife in the Ringim Local Government Area, Jigawa state, Nigeria. Her husband, like many people in the Yandutse community, doesn’t believe in Antenatal Care Services (ANC). “It’s a taboo,” her husband said. “Babies should not be tampered with.” Home births are the norm...

Being young does not limit the ability to innovate, construct, and showcase the capacity to drive change and create solutions. For far too long, the youths have, in many instances, been branded with negative stereotypes and thought to be irresponsible, unproductive, and lacking experience. But that is far from reality. Creating an enabling environment for...

When girls have the tools – like contraception – to take charge of their lives, they have the power to achieve their goals. But through insight gathering, we’ve heard girls say that they don’t see the connection/relevance between contraception and their future aspirations. Adolescents 360’s girl-centered approach to contraceptive programming shows that we can increase...

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