Contraception - it's our choice

The project “Contraception – it’s our choice” was designed in order to unveil the myths regarding oral hormonal contraception among the young people. This youth lead project was designed and conducted on the basis of the experience that the youth peer educators had over the years. Thought the year’s educators were facing with a lot of myths among young people especially girls regarding the negative side effects of the oral hormonal contraception. This fact in addition with the lowest rate of use of oral hormonal contraception among young girls ion the region (only 1,6% of the girls aged 15-19 use modern contraceptives) were the background for the project activities. The project was consisted of three segments. The first one was producing of a short educational movie. The second was producing of IEC (information, education, communication) materials for young people and for gynecologists. The last segment of the project was conducting educational workshops with young people.