need to reduce the age of consent of adolescents’ access to sexual and reproductive health services, including HIV related services, in Nigeria, has been an issue of concern.
During a session hosted by the New HIV Vaccine and Microbicide Advocacy Society at the recently concluded Maiden National Adolescents Health Conference, Mr Tunde Ogungbenro of the Society for Family Health described how the request for parental consent served as a hindrance to sexually active adolescents’ access to contraception.
Joy Oboyi, a youth working with Education as a Vaccine, also reported the challenges she went through with accessing sexual and reproductive health as an adolescent. Her recall of the unfriendly services by health care workers was a reason why she works actively as a youth to push for the reduction of the age of consent for sexual and reproductive health and HIV services to 14 years.
The age of consent for research participation was lowered to 16 years and this was reflected in the guidance document on sexual and reproductive health and HIV research issued by the Federal Ministry of Health in 2014. There is no evidence-derived information on the reason for this low HIV testing uptake and ways to make a difference.
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