presenter: abiodun omoloja

Is the Minimum Package of Prevention Intervention Working? Outcome of Combined Prevention Intervention among In-School Youths in Kwara State, Nigeria

Omoloja, Abiodun1; Omotoso Olukunle1; Chioma Nwuba1; Faromoju Sam1; Nwokedi Ndulue1; Jonathan Alayande2

1Management Sciences for Health (MSH), Nigeria2Government Secondary School, Bode Sa’adu, NigeriaPresenter: Abiodun

Omoloja

Introduction • Nigerian Context

Teenage pregnancy prevalence = 5.7% HIV among youth = 3.3%

• Study used Combined Prevention Intervention Package of individual, community, and structural interventions Designed to improved health outcomes among target audience Interventions included

Peer education Community awareness activities School-based activities Vulnerability education Sexually transmitted infection prevention education 2

ProACT trained students as peer educators using the Family Life HIV Education training package

Methods• Studied impact of Combined Prevention Intervention on health and academic

outcomes among students at Government Secondary School Bode Sa’adu

• Trained 30 students as peer educators 13 males, 17 females; 11-17 years old Used Family Life HIV Education (FLHE) training package Primary focus on sexual and reproductive health knowledge and HIV

prevention (abstinence and life skills)

• Peer educators used the Minimum Package of Prevention Intervention (MPPI) 3 different strategies, 3 times/month, for 12 months Each peer educator worked with 10 – 15 students

• April, 2011 – March, 2012• Peer educators reached 1,267 students (605 male, 662 female) • School had 1,500 students so reached 85% of the student population

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Results

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so it's hard to interpret htis graph, because i'm not sure what the kids were trainied on. so you show a decrease in pregnancies, but what was done that makes you believe that the FLHE program had anything to do wiht this decrease? you really havent described what kind of messages you delivered to the participating youth. how many youth participated in the FLHE? how many youth TOTAL are in Kwara state? one question i have is if there are say, 10000 youth in Kwara state, but only 500 were impacted by the FLHE program, then how can we say that this program had anything to do with the results on this graph?? so there is still a lot of information that we ned to fill in here.

Results (cont.)• Pre-intervention (2006 – 2010)

10 – 15 unintended teenage pregnancies each year Pregnancies had caused school dropouts, unsafe abortions, deaths

• Post-intervention Teenage pregnancy incidence had dropped to 0 April, 2011 = 11 pregnancies March, 2012 = 0 pregnancies

Conclusion

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Implementing the Combined Prevention Intervention approach through peer education contributed to improve sexual and reproductive health behaviors among youth, as indicated by reduced incidence of teenage pregnancy

Peer educators used drama to reach their classmates with sexual and reproductive health messages.

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Thank you!!!

Abiodun Omoloja, HIV Prevention [email protected]

Management Sciences for Health (MSH)Prevention & Organizational Systems AIDS Care and Treatment (ProACT) Project

presenter: abiodun omoloja

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