Tailoring youth-friendly health services in Nigeria: a mixed-methods analysis of a designathon approach.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Young people in low- and middle-income countries are often neglected in designing youth-friendly health services, especially HIV testing and preventive services. Designathons, which are time-bounded co-creation events where individuals gather in teams to develop solutions to a problem, could promote youth participation and ownership of health services.

Objective

The purpose of this study is to examine youth participation in a designathon to create youth-friendly health services in Nigeria.

Methods

Our designathon was based on crowdsourcing principles and informed by a human-centered design approach. The designathon included an open call for Nigerian youths between 14 and 24 years to share ideas on how to promote uptake of HIV self-testing services and a thr

SUBMITTER: Nwaozuru U 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8676684 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature