By Ibrahim Joenal Sesay
FREETOWN, June 13 (232news.com) – Marie Stopes Sierra Leone on Thursday 2nd June launched the 2022 Rain Sesaon “Koba Klos” free family planning services at its head office in Freetown.
The launch of the 2022 promo is in line with the Government of Sierra Leone’s family planning (FP) commitments specifically aim at reaching 755,939 additional women with FP services and to increase modern contraceptive prevalence rate (mCPR) from its most recent value of 21.2% in 2019 to 33.7% by 2022, as well as reduce adolescent birth rates from 125/1000 (2013) to 74/1000 in 2022. “The private sector and non-governmental organisations have also invested in the health sector. Their investments have or will increase bed capacity and provide advanced diagnostic services. It is heartening to see that as a consequence of these far-reaching investments, maternal and child mortality rates have been considerably lowered.” – H.E. Brig. Rtd. Julius Maada Bio, GCRSL, President of the Republic of Sierra Leone, May 13th 2022. In continued partnership with the government’s health priorities, we are pleased to announce the official launch of Rain Season “Koba-Klos” Promotion 2022, with the theme; “Empowerment through Family Planning and Sexual Reproductive Healthcare Services” today – Wednesday 2 nd June 2022. The “Koba-Klos” Promotion aims at reaching women and girls with quality, personalized and confidential services of choice that are free of user fees from Wednesday 1 st to Thursday 30th June 2022 at our Outreach and Public Sector Channels. Rain Season “Koba Klos” Promotion 2022 is funded and supported by MOHS, FCDO, UNFPA, WAHO and other donors. As always, free services will be available from our 14 Outreach teams in all districts and 117 Community Health Centres nationwide. “Family planning is central to gender equality, women’s empowerment, and the prosperity of individuals, families and communities.” – Dr. Natalie Kanem; Executive Director, UNFPA, March 2021. The free FP services that are available during this year’s Rain Season “Koba-Klos” Promotion” are Long Acting & Reversible Contraceptives (LARCs) specifically IUD (Coil) and Implant (Captain band), with SRH Counselling. Our mobile Outreach teams will also provide free testing and treatment for sexually-transmitted infections (STIs). Once again, we want to appreciate all the mobile telecommunications companies – Orange, Africell, Q-CELL & Sierratel SL. Thanks to their continued support, our clients, their families, and other stakeholders can reach us through the 3535 toll-free lines from all their networks to learn more about our services or book their preferred choice of Services through all our channels. Appointments can also be made at http://mariestopes.org.sl/book-an-appoinment.
