Kgnaya Motsha Adolescent Centre

Empowering, Confidential, Youth Friendly Clinic

Adolescents have special healthcare needs and face complex challenges to their health and development that they are often reluctant to address. In response, PHRU established Kganya Motsha (meaning “Shine Young Ones” in SeSotho) to provide services that would be sensitive to adolescents’ various stages of development. The dedicated adolescent clinic aims to:

• Significantly reduce the incidence rates of HIV amongst adolescents through education, prevention and treatment strategies.

• Meet the needs and fulfil the rights of adolescents.

Our Services

Situated in the heart of Kliptown, Soweto, Kganya Motsha works toward these goals by offering free, comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services to adolescents (aged 14 to 24 years). Kganya Motsha’s friendly and welcoming staff provides:

• Voluntary counselling and testing (VCT)

• STI education, prevention and treatment

• HIV education, prevention and counselling

• Reproductive health services

• Psychosocial evaluation and counselling

• Treatment and supportive care

• Peer mentoring

The clinic environment is safe and non-judgmental, staffed with people who recognize the special needs of adolescents transitioning from childhood to adulthood.

Our Research

While there is a great need to develop adolescent-specific health care services informed by cultural, socioeconomic, and structural issues; individual and societal needs; and the unique aspects of adolescent’s physical and psychological development, adolescents are often excluded from research. In addition to the care and support services Kganya Motsha provides, the centre is also supports a robust adolescent research programme.

Studies have explored HIV and STI prevention, counselling methods and attitudes, parent-adolescent communications and the effects of adult morbidity and mortality on household welfare and the well being of children. PHRU, together with our partners, developed the necessary ethical-legal framework for adolescent involvement in vaccine trials and, today, we pride ourselves on being one of only two international sites involved in adolescent HIV vaccine preparatory work funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Our Approach

Kganya Motsha offers its services at the centre and in surrounding schools. It identifies and trains adolescents peer educators and utilizes local media and faith-based organizations to encourage teens and their parents to visit the centre. In addition, Kganya Motsha uses individual, group and community approaches to help build the skills of the adolescents it serves and has become widely known for its supportive services. Effective partnerships have been formed in schools around the Soweto area and with NGOs; government; and health, welfare, education and security departments.

Visit us

Kganya Motsha Adolesent CentreKliptown Medical Centre
Union Road
Kliptown

Tel: 011 945 6405

Hours:
09h30 – 17h30 Monday to Friday
09h00 – 13h00 on Saturday

Call or walk-in for an appointment.

The Kganya Motsha Adolescent Centre is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).