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Implementing evidence based youth friendly health services
12, April 2023 - 09:35 | COVID-19 Health Innovations
The Youth Friendly Health Services (YFHS) project in Malawi is an initiative supported by the Uinversity of Carlifornia (UNC). In 2016, UNC conducted the Girl Power study to assess whether a model of youth-friendly health services implemented in government clinics could improve service uptake in this population. The study compared three clinics that offered a model of YFHS to one that did not. Participants were followed for one year to monitor uptake and adherence to services. The results were 97% HIV testing, 82% condoms, and 54% contraception uptake, compared to the low numbers from the clinic that did not offer the services. The YFHS model proved to be effective in increasing uptake and adherence to sexual and reproductive health support and services. The programme provides services from a young person’s perspective and addresses known barriers to care in youth dedicated spaces, separate from adults. Providers are trained in the YFHS approach to improve attitudes and peer educators are used to help young clients navigate health services as well as provide free services.
African Character Initiation Programme (AICP)
12, April 2023 - 09:20 | COVID-19 Health Innovations
The African Character Initiation Programme (ACIP) accompanies and empowers adolescents with information through their identity and sexual crises, to build their confidence and self-esteem and provides them with life skills and character values for successful transition to responsible adulthood. The community-based and participatory programme provides a one-stop source of information on adolescent realities in a context of modernization and information explosion. For sustainability, the programme is community-sponsored and owned with an inbuilt training of young programme alumni as future trainers. Over the last 13 years, the programme has directly impacted over 2000 boys and girls through workshops and camps and directly mentored over 1500 individual boys and girls. The ACIP has been tested in a multitude of areas within Kenya, as well as Malawi and Nepal.
Cipher microfuse technologies
12, April 2023 - 09:20 | COVID-19 Health Innovations
Cipher is a smartphone-based tool that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to improve non-invasive clinical detection and diagnosis of severe malaria through the eye. The device perfoms diagnosis by taking a picture of the eye to identify the retinopathies of malaria in the retina of the patient. This improves the efficiency, speed and accuracy of diagnosis thereby reducing human-errors. Cipher is a suite of both hardware and software systems that is currently deployed for object recognition, classification, and localization to improve non-invasive medical/clinical imaging of malaria and diabetic retinopathies. Over 2000 lives have been improved and the innovation is in use in 3 university teaching hospitals with 3 signed MOUs and 5 in the pipeline. Currently in use in Nigeria and finalizing plans to enter East Africa starting with Kenya