- +23276249120
- ppasl@ppa-sl.org
- 1 Richard Street, Freetown., Freetown, Sierra Leone
services
Provides support, access, and resources to help individuals and couples make informed choices about birth control, pregnancy, and overall reproductive health.
Creates a supportive and confidential environment for individuals to explore questions or concerns related to sexual health, intimacy, and personal identity.
Helps couples overcome challenges, enhance communication, and build deeper emotional bonds.
Offers delivery services, post-abortion care, antenatal and postnatal care, as well as minor and major surgical interventions.
Offers medical guidance, diagnostic testing, treatment, and management in assisting individuals and couples experiencing difficulties with conception.
Focuses on men’s sexual health by addressing concerns such as erectile dysfunction, reduced libido, and other reproductive issues.
Provides education on safe sex practices, along with testing, treatment, and management of sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
Provides treatment for common childhood illnesses and ensures timely vaccinations to safeguard against preventable diseases.
Helps women navigate the physical and emotional transitions of menopause with expert guidance, personalized care, and symptomatic management.
Offers diagnostic services, including lab tests and imaging, to ensure precise medical assessments and effective treatment planning, while maintaining strict infection control measures.
Provides counseling, support, and referrals for specialized services to survivors of gender-based violence, helping them access the care they need.
FAQ
What Service do PPA-SL Offers
The Association provides a wide range of SRH services to improve the health and quality of life for marginalized and underserved women and girls, with a focus on increasing access to maternal health care including antenatal and post-natal care, paediatric care, prevention, management and treatment of infertility and subfertility, sexually transmitted infections, and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), HIV counselling and testing, and family planning
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND SAFE MOTHER BILL?
Ø The Act is for both Men and Women
Ø The Act is to ensure that we have quality medical supplies in our health facilities/hospitals
Ø The Act is to reduce maternal and child morbidity and mortality
Ø The Act is to prevent, detect, and manage reproductive cancers
Ø The Act is to ensure appropriate referral services for emergencies and other reproductive health services
Ø The Act is to ensure prevention and treatment of childhood illnesses
Ø The Act is to prevent and ensure treatment of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections
Ø The Act is to ensure we have more trained health care professionals (Doctors & Nurses) in our hospitals and health care facilities
Ø The Act is to enhance access to family planning, information, counselling and services in designated health facilities
Ø The Act is to ensure everyone is treated with dignity and respect and accorded respect of privacy and confidentiality
Ø The Bill is to ensure everyone is protected from harm, ill-treatment and all forms of violence including physical, verbal and psychological abuse;
Ø The Act is to ensure that everyone is protected from economic and sexual exploitation
Ø The Act is to support vulnerable women and children to have access to quality health care services
Ø The Act is to ensure confidentiality of men and women when they visit any health facility/hospital.
Ø The Act is to ensure that every individual has informed consent.
Ø The Act is to improve on our hospital/health care infrastructure
Ø The Act is for government to build more hospitals and health care infrastructure
Ø The Act is to ensure the reduction in teenage pregnancy and allow girls to continue their education
Ø The Act is to improve on the Free Health Care for pregnant women, lactating mothers and under five children
Ø There is Nothing mentioned about abortion in the Act
Ø The Act is for all regardless of status to have right to accept or refuse
Ø The Act is to protect everyone regardless of status (Poor or Rich) from discrimination
Planned Parenthood Association of Sierra Leone has been a leading provider and advocate of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) services in Sierra Leone since 1959.
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