Has a national poverty rate of 41.3%

Has no standing government and is run by gangs 

Lots of trafficking goes on in haiti 

Sexual exploitation of women

Many women resort to sex work as a way to make money

Families send their young daughters into sex work for money

Sex workers in haiti don’t have access to contraceptives 

Easily spread STD and other diseases 

Many pregnancies

Teen girls are extremely vulnerable to early and unwanted pregnancies 

Get birth control to teens and women in haiti 

Get sex workers birth control and STD prevention 

Find a way to get birth control and other contraceptives past or approved by gangs

Get a doctor involved on site, so women are correctly being taken care of

Give the women free sex education, especially for any younger girls where they can learn about their health and precautions

Nexplanon is a type of birth control that is inserted into the upper arm 

Cant be seen from the outside 

Lasts up to 5 years 

Can be removed if you decide you want to get pregnant

Involve other contraceptive methods, like condoms, and pills if they would rather any of those

Bring birth control into Haiti

Give to women in sex work

Get gangs approval for birth control/STD protection by explaining death rates of pregnant women

Run the clinic for a couple years starting with 100 women, then test how many come back, or how many become pregnant

Expect maybe 60-80% at least to come back

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Have a backup system for women that experienced failure with the contraceptives or get pregnant

Give women options incase they want to keep the baby, or have an abortion(if legal)

Offer re-education if necessary

Every woman entering our program will take a short sex education course.

This course will teach about contraceptives, STDs, Pregnancies, and other sexual health topics.

The clinic will provide other forms of contraceptives such as condoms.

will also provide emergency medications like Plan B.