The 52nd Annual Scientific sessions of the Sri Lanka College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists took place on the 10th and 11th of August 2019 at the Galadari Hotel in Colombo. A large host of medical professionals from here and abroad particip...

The Advocacy Unit of FPA Sri Lanka conducted a workshop in Galle on the Sustainable Development Goals. (SDGs)

The objective of this workshop was to identity gaps and discuss the importance of SDG goals 5 and 3 which addresses Gender and Se...

FPA Sri Lanka provides support and services to people in all their diversity; including women and girls, people with disabilities, people of diverse sexual orientation, gender identity or expression in a humanitarian crisis. Transgender people ar...

FPA Sri Lanka’s Sonali Gunasekera, the Director Advocacy, Saman Perera, the Deputy Director of Finance and Sriyal Nilanka, the Programme Officer for the AFAO project, attended the Sustainability of HIV Services for Key Populations in Asia (SKPA...

Comprehensive sexuality education is the crossroads at which education and health meet. It is vital to advancing health outcomes and gender equality. It gives young people the tools they need to have healthy lives and relationships. It helps them ...

There are more young people in the world than ever before. Today, worldwide, there are 1.8 billion young people between the ages of 10 and 24. This demographic reality requires governments, decision makers, educators, health providers and parents ...

Delivering CSE in and outside school should not be seen as an ‘either/or’. We must invest in the delivery of CSE in both formal and non-formal settings to ensure that we reach all young people.

CSE can enable young people to realize the...

Young people out of school are harder to reach with CSE and this requires greater effort. Through such programmes, FPA Sri Lanka aims to address current and emerging sexual and reproductive health issues and improving the health and quality of l...

The unmet need of family planning in Sri Lanka indicates that there are certain vulnerable populations (youth, working women, and older women,among them for whom coverage is limited by the government sector’s services) that remain unreached, wit...

Did you know that only 34 % of young people around the world can demonstrate accurate knowledge of HIV prevention and transmission? And that two out of three girls in some countries have no idea of what is happening to them when they begin menstru...