Youth represent a large, significant and growing demographic in Egypt. With generally low contraceptive use rates and knowledge about reproductive health, youth represent a relatively high proportion of the country's unmet reproductive health needs. Promoting comprehensive youth-friendly services (YFS) is essential in assisting youth to make responsible sexual and reproductive decisions and empowering them to enforce these decisions.
The training content and methodology of this manual will enable YFS providers to respond to the frequently asked questions by young people such as: body changes that occur at puberty, reproductive physiology and anatomy, virginity, the sexual response cycle in human beings, female genital mutilation, premarital counseling, prenatal and postnatal care, in addition to family planning. This training manual will be used to conduct a training workshop for physicians working in youth-friendly clinics (YFCs).
This training manual is designed to assist in developing the capacity of the providers of youth-friendly services (YFS) in providing family planning (FP) and reproductive health (RH) services and information to youth through a training workshop. YFS providers should be able to respond to the needs of young people, remove their fears, respect their concerns and provide the services within an environment that suits their preferences.
