We Are United in Our Dedication to youth's health

Who We Are

Partnering to build a world where all youth are educated about health

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.

Our Approach

We Facilitate Safe Learning Spaces

ADHEC is registered as youth-focused, youth centred community based organization with National Youth Development Council mandated by an act of Parliament to register and spearhead youth development national wide. Presently, efforts have been made to have ADHEC registered as a Non Governmental Organization with the Registrar of Society as to give it the authentic legal status that will expand the scope of operations.

ADHEC is a mandated youth community organization to carry out effective and efficient approaches in the fight against HIV, STI, TB, SGBV and Malaria with its catchments areas of Masala community and beyond covering the whole Ndola.

Objectives

Increase access to comprehensive sexuality education and Sexual and Reproductive Health information among adolescents and young people with disabilities
Increase demand and uptake to have access to quality and equitable sexual and reproductive health services
Build and create awareness on bodily autonomy among children, adolescents and youth women with disabilities
To establish a community resource centre aimed at facilitating access to SRHR and HIV prevention information for adolescents and youths with disabilities.
To involve ourselves in the social empowerment of youths (orphans, street children) through community events such as capacity-building, youth trainings, and social activities which bring our youths and communities together.

— Our Mission

To promote empowerment capacity building, and contribute to sustainable development and good sexual reproductive health and rights among children, youths and young women in Ndola District, through bodily autonomy SRHR, HIV prevention, education support, comprehensive skills training iinterventions.

— Our Vision

A healthy and fully empowered adolescents, youth and young women with disabilities contributing to sustainable development

— Our Goal

To increase uptake of sexual reproductive health and rights services among adolescents and young people through advocacy for improved service delivery.