Right to Sexual and Reproductive Health Education 2016 which must be established in all the schools. Among the RH related work done by the CCHDC include providing the RH care information kit to all the Public Health Units in the country so that these kits can be distributed to all expecting mothers. Furthermore, they also conduct information sessions, and provide a ‘marriage kit’ (which included bath towels, soaps and condoms) to all newly marrying couples. The marriage kit was sent to all the courts of Maldives to be presented to the couples on the day they get married. However, this project has long been discontinued due to financial difficulties.37 Another major concern noted by the CCHDC is that more focus was being given to curative measures rather than preventive measures and that the risk on health and the external costs can be minimized if preventive measures were given more importance. According to them better measures need to be put in place to provide RH services to the general public, especially in providing information to adolescents on SRH as this could prevent a lot of other SRH related issues present within the society today. 5.2.2 Reproductive Health Center The Reproductive Health Center in Indira Gandhi Memorial Hospital (IGMH), the largest government hospital in Maldives, is comprised of an Antenatal Clinic, Post‐natal Clinic, Family Planning Clinic and a Well Women Clinic.38 Since, the Antenatal clinic is based inside the hospital itself, the clinic have great difficulties in providing their services and the general public also has difficulty accessing them.39 From 2005 till 2008 the Reproductive Health Center used to have an Adolescent Health Clinic, where information about nutrition, vaccination and STIs were given to youngsters. One of the center’s main tasks 37 Information received at Stakeholder Meetings with CCHDC, 2012 Information received from the Ministry of Health, 2015 39 Information received at Stakeholder meetings with Reproductive Health Centre (IGMH), 2012 38 37 AVAILABLE SERVICES FROM THE GOVERNMENT ENTITIES

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