Bolarinwa, Obasanjo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9208-6408, Ahinkorah, Bright Opoku, Seidu, Abdul-Aziz and Ajayi, Kobi V. (2023) Universal Access to Family Planning Services for Adolescent Girls in Africa Amidst COVID-19. In: SDGs in Africa and the Middle East Region. Implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals – Regional Perspectives . Springer, pp. 1-24

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Abstract

Adolescent sexual and reproductive health is essential toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Target 3.7, which focuses on ensuring universal access to sexual and reproductive healthcare services, including family planning, information, and education, and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programs by 2030. Achieving universal health coverage for adolescent sexual and reproductive health requires a resilient and functional health system that protects the right to accessing equitable and quality services. This hinges on the availability, accessibility, and healthcare workforce capacity to deliver timely and quality people-centered integrated care. Closely connected to this is the important role of the SDG Target 5.6, which focuses on ensuring universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action. However, in addition to existing structural and socioeconomic barriers to adolescents’ access to sexual and reproductive health services in Africa, the disruption to healthcare delivery and services due to the unprecedented emergence of the 2019 coronavirus disease may magnify the barriers adolescent girls face in accessing sexual and reproductive health services, including family planning use. Based on a review of relevant literature obtained through Google Scholar, PubMed, and Scopus, this chapter highlights the key issues to achieving universal health coverage for family planning services amidst the 2019 coronavirus pandemic through adolescent girls’ lens. To this end, a proactive and multisectoral framework is necessary to protect adolescent girls’ access and right to sexual and reproductive health services in Africa.

Item Type:	Book Section
Status:	Published
DOI:	10.1007/978-3-030-91260-4_7-1
School/Department:	London Campus
URI:	https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/9697

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