Mr Paapa Adjei-Kyeremeh, Eastern Regional Youth Coordinator, has urged the government to make resources available to the National Youth Council (NYC) to educate the youth on reproductive health.
He said since the youth were the most energetic there was the need for them to know and learn more about their health to enable them to live healthy lives to help the labour force of the country.
Mr Adjei-Kyeremeh was opening a two-day training workshop in Koforidua on Friday for peer educators and non-traditional condom distributors.
The participants are to promote youth reproductive health service for out-of school youth in the Suhum Kraboa Coaltar District and the West Akim Municipality.
Mr Adjei-Kyeremeh noted that 28 percent of the total population of the country was made up of the youth and out of that figure, 60 percent were out-of school.
He said the mandate of the NYC was to empower the 60 percent out-of school youth to have training on vocations and their reproductive health.
Mr Adjei-Kyeremeh said it was important for young people to know more about their health to prevent them from getting involved in problems like alcoholism and drug abuse among others.
He appealed to the government to invest more in the reproductive health of the youth because of their importance to the country.
Mr Isaac Acheampong Fianko, Acting Eastern Regional Director of Health Promotion of the Ghana Health Service, in his keynote address, noted that the welfare of the youth had become a major focus for government, policy makers and service providers.
He said the spread of HIV/AIDS and other Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STI's) had posed a major challenge to the nation in ensuring the welfare of the next generation.
Mr Fianko noted that knowledge of HIV/AIDS was universal adding that 98 percent of women and 99 percent of men were aware of the disease in the country.
He urged the participants to take the training very seriously to equip them better with the necessary knowledge and skills.