ADOLESCENT HEALTH CENTRE

Adolescent Health Centre (ADHEC) is a youth led and youth centered organization registered in Zambia under the National Youth Development Council (NYDC) Act. No. 7 of 1986. ADHEC is comprised of youth workers, community performing artists, peer educators and youth counsellors who work to safeguard the interests of young people on various sexual and reproductive health and rights issues in key areas which include family planning & safe abortion, health advocacy, health governance, HIV/STI prevention, and behavioral change communication for better health outcomes. ADHEC was founded to both influence the development of policies that take into consideration the various health needs and health related rights of young people and create spaces where preventive health (especially sexual and reproductive health and rights) services are made easily accessible by the young people.  ADHEC affirms in taking such services right into the community to make services more accessible and more user friendly to the young people.

ADHEC has today worked with various partners including the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to promote good governance and improved access to SRHR services. The Organization is headquartered in the Copperbelt Province of Zambia but works with a network of other organizations in selected parts of Zambia.