ELCT Health

Clinic and Community-based Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (CCBSRHR) Program

CCBSRHR is among the programs within the ELCT Health and Diakonia Directorate. The program started as a reproductive health project in the late 1990s and later expanded in terms of geographical location, areas of interest, and the engagement of stakeholders. Currently, the ELCT Health and Diakonia Directorate is implementing projects under this program in different areas of the country, both at the ELCT health facilities and in surrounding communities connected by the overall goal of the CCBSRHR program.

Aim of Programme

Improved access to SRHR information, education and services to address issues of maternal mortality, teen pregnancies, gender-based violence and harmful practices such as Female Genital mutilation (FGM), HIV/AIDS and other reproductive health issues.

Activities

Provision of health services through all the ELCT health facilities across the country.
Capacity building to health providers on SRHR
Facilitate supportive environments for the provision of services
Build the capacity of community resource persons such as Religious, traditional, and political leaders to be able to support the innovations at the facilities.
Conduct outreach activities for early screening and identification of Reproductive health Issues.
Strengthen bidirectional referral for SRHR information, education and services.

Archievements

Development of the communication strategy for religious leaders on issues of SRHR and GBV.

Engagement in advocacy activities for improved access to SRHR education, information and services.

Support the initiation/improvement of services such as youth-friendly services and male engagement in reproductive health services.

Development of male champions among church officials to champion the involvement of men in reproductive health services.

Develop and scale up special programs to improve the well-being of teen mothers and their children in different areas of the country.

Complement the Government efforts to end FGM.

Development and strengthened partnerships.

Reason for ELCT

Education and Sensitization of People's Reproductive Heath

(Hoseah 4;6): My People are being destroyed for lack of knowledge!

Voluntary Counselling for HIV testing and treatment

(Romans 15:1) We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not please ourselves

Prevention of HIV/STD transmission from parents to their unborn babies

(Isaiah 65:20&23): There shall be no more there an infant of days, nor an old man that has not filled his days: for the child shall die a hundred years old; but the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.

Education on SRHR and HIV among the youth

(Ecclesiastes 11:9)- You who are young, be happy while you are young, and let your heart give you joy in the days of your youth. Follow the ways of your heart and whatever your eyes see, but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment

Support and collaboration with People living with HIV

(Romans 5:3-4) Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope

Gender-based Violence and Oppression to the Voiceless

(Exodus 22: 21-23): Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, for you were foreigners in Egypt. Do not take advantage of the widow or the Orphans. If you do and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear their cry.

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