Right to Sexual and Reproductive Health Education 2016 is providing vaccination for school age children in collaboration with MOE and the schools. The Reproductive Health Center had also conducted information sessions upon requests from the schools and most of the requests were usually on information regarding health related issues faced by girls. Nevertheless, one of the main challenges noted by the Reproductive Health Center in providing these information sessions was the difficulty in attaining enough participants, mostly children and youngsters to participate in their information sessions. Expecting mothers are encouraged to register at the Antenatal Clinic where they are given information regarding the various information sessions conducted by the clinic. Some of the services provided by the clinic currently include providing information sessions on RH, childbirth, newborn care, etc. Apart from this, they also provide all the registered couples with a RH care information kit which consists of leaflets based on different topics of RH. Some of the topics included in the leaflets are; preparing for pregnancy, healthy eating, health problems, issues and problems related to pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, caring for a newborn, becoming a father, etc. The information kit is available for all those who are registered at the clinic and for those who request for it. However, it was gathered from the FGDs that very few individuals knew that this information was available and accessible to them. 5.3 Family Court of Maldives The Family Court of the Maldives conducts a one‐day pre‐marriage counseling session for all couples who are registering to get married. It was previously conducted in collaboration with the Ministry of Youth, however all the expenses were financed from the Family Court. The course is currently conducted by the Family Court and is a compulsory session for all the couples. Couples are to register for the course and complete the sessions before they 38 AVAILABLE SERVICES FROM THE GOVERNMENT ENTITIES

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