Studies suggest that many adolescents, especially those with the most pressing SRH needs or who are most marginalized or vulnerable, are not being reached by interventions as intended by program planners.
Since they tend to stay off the grid and out of sight, they're not likely to benefit from or even be reached by these interventions.
In both settings, it is desirable that podocytes can be reached by pharmacological interventions.
While it is unrealistic to expect that 100% of all adolescents in a given setting will be reached by an intervention, a study by Erulkar et al. is illustrative of the limited reach of many programs against what is intended.
In addition, the first to be reached by new health interventions are those people in a better situation and this in turn contributes towards the growing inequality in health services [ 2].
However, these behavioural and organizational changes require time and cannot be reached by implementing a single intervention.
However, male clients of these HSWs who have both male and female partners, may not be reached by or respond to such interventions.
Health-care workers might not be reached by family physicians, but rather by alternative interventions such as vaccination programs at the workplace.
The positive effect of the intervention can only be reached by implementing the whole package, including the care manager who plays the most significant role within the model, and patients receiving care as usual are not involved with a care manager.
Coverage with NSP was initially low in Ukraine, with fewer than 10% of IDUs estimated to be reached by early 2003 [ 59]; however, recent estimates indicate that 32% of IDUs were reached by preventive interventions in the previous 12 months in 2008 [ 27].
