The document discusses a youth mHealth project presented by Pearson Malisau at a conference in San Francisco, aimed at improving youth sexual health through mobile technology. The project successfully reached 1,785 youth, mainly utilizing mHealth for health promotion and connecting users to sexual health services. Challenges regarding data privacy and youth access to mobile phones were highlighted, along with the need for partnerships in Malawi to strengthen advocacy for youth mHealth initiatives.

1. Healthy Youth On-line Meet-Up
Presentation by
Pearson Malisau
06 – 07 May 2018
San Francisco
Centre for Girls and Interaction (CEGI)
African Youth Safe Abortion Alliance (AYOSA)

2. mHealth Presentation Background
• Youth mHealth is an amazing approach for
youth who are interested in working in
mHealth program for their fellow young
people
• It provide youth with a chance to promote and
improve their skills, networking and access to
information on health and related issues
through mobile phone which provides
reliable, safe and confidential information

3. Project Description and Goal
• This project were reviewed to confirm that youth
mobile phones were utilized as a key communication
media for the project, that youth ages 14–24 were a
prime target audience, and the project had a very
amazing evidence on emerging that mobile phones are
an effective way to reach youth and to achieve
knowledge and behavior change.
• More understanding was needed about the challenges
of data privacy and phone access, especially among
younger adolescents, and the role that mHealth
solutions for adolescent SRH should play in health
programming for youth

4. Main Points & Learning Objectives
• A total of 1785 youth reaches. The majority of
activities used mHealth as a health promotion
tool (86%) to facilitate knowledge sharing and
behavior change to improve youth SRH
including teen pregnancy prevention. Other
activities (21%) used mHealth as a way to link
users to essential SRH services, including
family planning counseling and services,
medical abortion and post-abortion care, and
HIV care and treatment.

5. Important of Youth Sexual Health and
Technology
• The use of youth SH through mHealth has been
interesting and promising for youth and interaction
through sharing and connecting for mHealth solutions
for SRHR, there has been much documentation of SR
and mHealth interventions for youth living in resource-
poor settings in Malawi to obtain the latest information
about mHealth programs targeting youth on
prevention of un planned pregnancies, and that the
program used mobile phone features beyond one-on-
one phone calls between youth and health providers as
well as hotline counsellors.

6. Hotline Communication and Visibility
Strategies
• Promotion of hotline community outreaches

7. Cont….Hotline Communication and
Visibility Strategies
Peer to Peer approach

8. Other Hotline Promotion Strategies
• We use promotional materials like banners,
posters which are placed in strategic places
• Development of and marking of hotline with
stickers in pharmacies ,maternities ,hair dressing
salons
• Distribution of T-shirts with hotline number,
banners
• Our organization needed a critical mass of
partners in Malawi in order to justify and
increasing advocacy work on youth mHealth

9. Thank You!