‘Say everything’: exploring young people's suggestions for improving sexuality education

Allen, Louisa

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“…The involvement of young people at the onset of a sexual and reproductive education program develops trust and helps to identify some of the challenges (such as lack of a youth-friendly services) that need to be improved for adolescent health programs to be effective. 25 This can build the capacity of young people in the area of advocacy and peer education. Partnerships with youth networks can also help provide training to volunteer peer educators to provide education to adolescents and women in the community using various media such as home visits, radio, television programs and theatre.…”

Section: Prevention and Control Of Cervical Cancer In Ghana Public Edmentioning

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Recommendations for cervical cancer prevention and control in Ghana: public education and human papillomavirus vaccination

Nartey¹,

Hill²,

Amo‐Antwi³

et al. 2018

Ghana Medical Journal

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SUMMARYGlobally, cervical cancer is a major public health issue causing increasing morbidity and mortality especially in lowand middle-income countries where preventive and control measures are lacking. In Ghana, it is the most common cancer among women. Approaches to reduce the incidence and mortality of the disease in Ghana have had little success due to lack of accurate data on the disease among other factors, to inform policies on prevention, early detection, diagnosis and treatment. Additionally, the lack of clear commitment, policy direction and resources has hindered the scale-up of some of the initiatives implemented to curb the cervical cancer situation in Ghana. In this paper, we make recommendations on cervical cancer education and human papillomavirus vaccination. A collaborative approach is needed involving both private and government organizations, health professionals and the general public. Public education on cervical cancer and HPV vaccination needs to be delivered through a mixture of systems including both healthcare facilities and outreach programs, involving teachers, youth groups, community members and professional bodies. The vaccination of adolescents aged 10-14 years using the nonavalent HPV vaccine will be important in reducing the incidence and mortality of cervical cancer in Ghana. The integration of public education on cervical cancer prevention, HPV vaccination and screening programs into both medical and public health services is critical in achieving high coverage of these programs. Funding: None

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Section: Prevention and Control Of Cervical Cancer In Ghana Public Edmentioning

confidence: 99%

Recommendations for cervical cancer prevention and control in Ghana: public education and human papillomavirus vaccination

Nartey¹,

Hill²,

Amo‐Antwi³

et al. 2018

Ghana Medical Journal

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“…They want sexualities and relationships education (as distinct from sex education) that is realistic and acknowledges the place of pleasure in sexual activity. This does not dispute that people are involved in sex for numerous reasons with many sex acts forced or non-consensual (Boris et al 2010) but young people are voicing that they want to know how to get the most from an intimate relationship (FPA 2010), make 'sex more interesting' (Coleman and Testa 2007, 299) and SRE that engages with sexual pleasure (Allen 2005a). Reports on educational standards and SRE and PSHE in England and Wales replicate these messages in relaying students' calls for more open dialogue on the positive and emotional implications of sexual relations (Ofsted 2002) and the need for this input before 'feeling sexual desire' (Ofsted 2007, 11).…”

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‘It's got to be about enjoying yourself’: young people, sexual pleasure, and sex and relationships education

Hirst

2013

Sex Education

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Pleasure as a component of sexualities and relationships education has been much rehearsed recently. Arguably, theoretical debate and critique been more prominent than practitioner perspectives on how to persuade stakeholders of the value of implementing pleasure into learning about sexualities and relationships. This paper offers a rationale for positive SRE that includes pleasure. A series of theoretically and empirically supported suggestions are offered to encourage curriculum gatekeepers that SRE premised on a right to pleasure is warranted because of its potential to achieve safer sexual health outcomes and contribute to gender equality. Challenges faced by some sex educators are acknowledged by historicising the often uneasy associations between sexuality, education and youth in relation to some political and academic dimensions of debate, before offering a rationale on ways forward. Analysis focuses on young women. Policy developments relate to the UK but issues raised have relevance for SRE in other contexts.

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“…This 'restrictive' approach has been widely denounced by scholars working in critical sexuality [1]. It has been argued that a focus on abstinence reproduces unhelpful constructions surrounding male and female sexuality, for example, the view that men are the active, desiring sexual agents in sexual relationships (see 'the male sex drive discourse' [17]), which by virtue means that (heterosexual) women are required to protect themselves against men's sexual desire.…”

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“…On the one hand, there is a perceived need for access to 'correct' or 'trustworthy' authoritative information, often with the overriding objective of reducing sexual activity amongst young people (sometimes referred to as a 'restrictive' approach to sexual health and sex education). On the other, a 'permissive' approach argues that we should acknowledge young people as sexual beings, and put their needs and perspectives at the fore [1,13,14]. In grappling this tension, our paper details our digital response to adolescent sexual and reproductive health, a game we designed in conjunction with young people to promote 'healthy' discussions around sex and sexuality.…”

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Sex Talk

Wood

Balaam

2017

Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Interaction Design and Children

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In this paper, we describe a user-centred design process, where we engaged with 58 adolescents over an 18-month period to design and evaluate a multiplayer mobile game which prompts peer-led interactions around sex and sexuality. Engagement with our design process, and response to our game, has been enthusiastic, highlighting the rich opportunities for HCI to contribute constructively to how HCI may contribute to sexual health in adolescents. Based on our experiences we discuss three lessons learnt: lightweight digital approaches can be extremely successful at facilitating talk among young people about sex; sharing control of the conversation between all stakeholders is a fair and achievable approach; even problematic interactions can be opportunities to talk about sex.

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‘Say everything’: exploring young people's suggestions for improving sexuality education

Cited by 163 publications

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Recommendations for cervical cancer prevention and control in Ghana: public education and human papillomavirus vaccination

Recommendations for cervical cancer prevention and control in Ghana: public education and human papillomavirus vaccination

‘It's got to be about enjoying yourself’: young people, sexual pleasure, and sex and relationships education

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