Vietnam – Teenagers lack knowledge about reproductive health

SGGP
February 21, 2023

Some medical experts believed that minors lack basic knowledge and skills on protection and care for reproductive and sexual health, so they easily become victims of sexual abuse, leading to bad consequences. Lack of parents' and relatives’ care and schooling also worsened the problem.

According to the World Health Organization, children entering adolescence are going through many physical and psychological changes like exploring their own capabilities and expanding many new relationships. Teenagers having early sexual intercourse have a higher risk of sexually transmitted infections, unwanted pregnancy, and unsafe abortion.

Continued: https://www.sggpnews.org.vn/teenagers-lack-knowledge-about-reproductive-health-post100396.html


TUNISIA – Sexual and reproductive rights in Tunisia: not for all, not everywhere

TUNISIA – Sexual and reproductive rights in Tunisia: not for all, not everywhere
(Les droits sexuels et reproductifs en Tunisie: Pas pour tous, pas partout)

by International Campaign for Women's Right to Safe Abortion
Nov 27, 2018

On 9 November 2018, 13 Tunisian NGOs met to discuss the theme: “Let’s mobilise against the disengagement of the Tunisian State in the field of sexual and reproductive health” (Mobilisons nous contre le désengagement de l’Etat tunisien dans le domaine de la santé sexuelle et reproductive), to warn about disparities in access to sexual and reproductive rights in Tunisia in recent years.

The organisations were the Tunisian Association of Women Democrats (ATFD) with the support of the Group Tawhida, Association of Tunisian Women for Research and Development (AFTURD), Association Beity, Association for the Defence of Individual Freedoms (ADLI), Tunisian League of Human Rights, Association of Reproductive Health, ATL/MST/AIDS, Association of Positive Prevention, Mawjoudin, Damj, Tunisian Association for the Defence of the Right to Health, and Ness and Shouf.

Continued: http://www.safeabortionwomensright.org/tunisia-sexual-and-reproductive-rights-in-tunisia-not-for-all-not-everywhere/