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g)
h)
Institute incentive schemes for employers to invest in the skills
development of employed and unemployed youth;
Institute national youth service programmes to engender community
participation and skills development for entry into the labour market.
Article 16: Health
1.
Every young person shall have the right to enjoy the best attainable state of
physical, mental and spiritual health.
2.
States Parties shall undertake to pursue the full implementation of this right
and in particular shall take measures to:
a)
Make available equitable and ready access to medical assistance
and health care especially in rural and poor urban areas with an
emphasis on the development of primary health care;
b)
Secure the full involvement of youth in identifying their reproductive
and health needs and designing programmes that respond to these
needs with special attention to vulnerable and disadvantaged youth;
Provide access to youth friendly reproductive health services
including contraceptives, antenatal and post natal services;
c)
d)
Institute programmes to address health pandemics in Africa such as
HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria;
e)
Institute comprehensive programmes to prevent the transmission of
sexually transmitted infections and HIV/AIDS by providing education,
information, communication and awareness creation as well as
making protective measures and reproductive health services
available;
f)
Expand the availability and encourage the uptake of voluntary
counselling and confidential testing for HIV/AIDS;
g)
Provide timely access to treatment for young people infected with
HIV/AIDS including prevention of mother to child transmission, post
rape prophylaxis, and anti-retroviral therapy and creation of health
services specific for young people;
h)
Provide food security for people living with HIV/AIDS;
i)
Institute comprehensive programmes including legislative steps to
prevent unsafe abortions;
j)
Take legislative steps such as banning advertising and increasing
price in addition to instituting comprehensive preventative and