Magdalene Sey
3 December 2008
Elmina — The Center for the Development of People (CEDEP), in collaboration with the United Nations Funds for Project Activities (UNFPA), has embarked on a reproductive health project in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) municipality, to minimise, and if possible, eradicate reproductive and sexually-related health problems in the area by 2010.
Addressing a review meeting organised by CEDEP and UNFPA, for stakeholders at Elmina on Thursday, the Programme Manager of CEDEP, Mrs. Aba Oppong, disclosed that the project started in 2006, and aimed to achieve its goal by 2010.
Mrs. Oppong explained that the purpose of the project was to help bring to light the problems associated with reproductive and sexual health, to be addressed in catchment areas of the project.
She added that her outfit begun training field personnel in 2006, who in turn, educated people in their communities on the causes and prevention of reproductive and sexually transmitted diseases, such as teenage pregnancy, HIV/AIDS, and other sexually-related diseases.
She further added that her outfit had put in place measures to ensure that field personnel attended refresher sensitisation programmes, to keep them abreast with information, for the effective execution of their work.
Mrs. Oppong said reports of field personnel were being solicited, to equip CEDEP with first hand information, and also enable the association work on some of the challenges the field personnel faced in the course of their duties.
She advised the field personnel to play their respective roles well, so as to enable CEDEP achieve its aim.
The KEEA Senior Public Health Nurse, Mrs. Elizabeth Adjoa Wood, implored the field personnel to acquaint themselves with adequate information, to be able to send the right message across to the general public.
A representative of UNFPA, Madam Esi Awotwe, also urged them to perform their respective roles well, in order to achieve the intended aim of the project.
The participants, who comprised mainly of field personnel from communities in KEEA, gave various reports on the activities they had embarked upon, such as sensitisation of residents in their various communities on HIV/AIDS, teenage pregnancy, and sexual reproductive health among others.
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