With fund support from Plan International, HACC organized the National Forum on Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) amongst adolescents and service providers. The forum was held on 16th, January 2024 at Sunway Hotel in Phnom Penh. The purpose of the forum was to listen to the efforts, concerns, and challenges related to adolescent health, and to share experiences and concerns related to access to quality sexual reproductive health services and problem-solving as well as prepare planning through dialogue in this forum.
The forum was attended by Mr. Sy Sony, representative of Plan International, Ms. Kenh Sokly, representative of youth from CRC-Cambodia (Adolescents and Youth Reference Group- AYRG, Child Advocacy Network-CAN and Child and Youth Led Network-CYLN), Mr. Tim Vora, Executive Director of HACC, representatives of CSOs actively implementing sexual and reproductive health at the community level including PSOD, Good Neighbor Cambodia, KHANA, World Vision International, Marie Stopes Cambodia, representatives of Provincial Health Department in Stueng Treng and Ratanakiri province, and representative of Ministry of Education. Total participants were 34 (23 females).
“The results of CDHS 2021-2022 show that sexual HIV transmission amongst young women and young men is in 15-24 age range, and high-risk sexual intercourse among men is in 15-49 age range,” said Mr. Sy Sony.
The forum served as platform for participants to involve, discuss, and identify areas that should be more focused on the services related to sexual, and reproductive health and rights at health centers for target project intervention.
As the key results obtaining from the two-hour national platform, there were three main key prioritizes for consideration:
1) Request CSOs, relevant partners, and MoH to consider more advocacy and promote Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights in the remote target areas
2) Mobilize funds, and resources to conduct training on service quality for healthcare providers
3) Provide training on medical professional ethics to healthcare providers through mobilizing funds, and resources from CSOs and relevant partners.
