‘Menya Wirinde' (Learn So You Can Protect Yourself) Chatbots: Empowering Adolescents and Caregivers to Improve Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (ASRHR) in Rwanda

In Rwanda, 74% of new HIV infections are in young girls (15-19 years) and early pregnancy rates are rising (1). The age of sexual debut is dropping, and adolescents report high levels of coercion in their sexual relationships (1,5,7). A lack of access to SRHR information and non-judgemental advice on sexual and reproductive health and relationships is cited as a primary factor driving these trends, which threaten to reverse the gains made in reducing health, poverty and inequality in the nation.