The importance of knowledge about Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) among adolescents and the need for an approach that goes beyond biological conceptions
The incidence of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) is a global public-health problem. Statistics show that one third of HIV/AIDS sufferers in the world are young people aged 10 to 24 years. Being this public the disseminator of knowledge to the future generations, it is necessary to invest in se...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2019 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU) |
| Repositorio: | Revista Em Extensão (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.www.seer.ufu.br:article/43346 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/revextensao/article/view/43346 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Jovens Educação sexual IST Teenagers Sex education STI |
| Sumario: | The incidence of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) is a global public-health problem. Statistics show that one third of HIV/AIDS sufferers in the world are young people aged 10 to 24 years. Being this public the disseminator of knowledge to the future generations, it is necessary to invest in sex education, aiming the prevention and improvement of worldwide overview of STI. Through the “Extension program outh with health: university and public schools in STI prevention”, the aim of this project was to carry information for high school teenagers in São João del-Rei, State of Minas Gerais, generate discussions aiming to stimulate student’s critical thinking and autonomy about the subject and support the school at the promotion of a good sex education. Lectures and dynamics about STI, pregnancy, contraceptive methods and sex where held. The dynamics were based on assumptions that adolescents would judge as correct or not, followed by discussion. The results pointed that involved students have a superficial knowledge about these diseases, which may be due to a lack of approach to the subject, associated to the stigma that involves the subject. Therefore, it is concluded that investing in good sexual education is the way to solve this problem. |
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