YAhealth

YAhealth is a bilingual (English and Kinyarwanda) and online-offline mobile app that provide user and age-centered (age groups 10-14, 15-19, and 20-24) information on different SRHR topics, Gender-based Violence, Youth Relationships, and Mental Health. In addition, the application has:

Menstrual Cycle tracking system that helps girls/women to track and predict their next menstruation and fertile periods, and get notified prior to each of these periods. Self-Mental Health Status Screen system with a mix of standardized questions set by WHO on distinguished mental health disorders facing young people, for early and easy detection.   Private Chat which helps young people to chat with sexual and reproductive health and Mental Health experts in a youth-friendly and confidential way Discussion Forum that offers a safe space to openly and freely talk and interact with fellow peers in a youth-friendly, private, and confidential environment.

Service Location Tracker which helps young people to locate service delivery points including Health centers, Hospitals and Isange One-Stop Centers, clinics, youth-friendly centers and corners, and condom kiosks on the map.

Gamified Quizzes which help young people to assess their level of skills in regard to SRHR/FP.

YAhealth was developed with the aim of Creating a rapid demand and Increasing awareness and uptake of FP/ASRH and Mental Health services in Rwandan youth through youth-friendly, confidential, and private means.

Please note: 

• Online screening tools are not diagnostic instruments. You are encouraged to seek a doctor’s advice in addition to using this app and before making any medical decisions. Community Health Boosters, sponsors, partners, and advertisers disclaim any liability, loss, or risk incurred as a consequence, directly or indirectly, from the use and application of these screens.

• YAhealth does not guarantee that you cannot get pregnant, it only informs you whether and when you can become pregnant based on the information that you enter into the application. Also, it does not protect against STIs.