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• Some reasons:
– It’s surrounded by taboos and
prejudices
– The manifestations of auto-
destructive tendencies are
subtle
– It constitutes an accusation
about the unsustainability of
experienced life
Young People’s Sexual and
Reproductive Health
Priorities of Public Policies
Some factor that contribute
to those figures
• Maintenance of • Search of young
social expectations women for
over women. Main independency and
one: maternity autonomy
• Lack of financial • Sexual violence,
conditions of sexual harassment
young women to and incest
have access to – Costa Rica: high
contraceptive incest rates
methods
– Peru: 50% of
• Lack of privacy of young women
young women have had their
before their own first sexual
relation under
family concerning coercion
contraceptive
– Nicaragua: 26%
Other conditions needed for
safe sex
• Favorable familiar context
• Institutional support offered by
schools, health units, programs
and services of sexual and
reproductive orientation
• Development of the capability to
negotiate with the partner, which
requires: self-valorization, self-
love, knowledge and capacity of
argumentation
Such conditions are from the cultural and
moral spheres
Before an unwanted
pregnancy: suicide or
homicide may occur
Priorities of local or national
social programs
• Orientations about sexuality and
reproduction; distribution of
contraceptives and condoms
• Campaigns in schools against early
pregnancy – lectures, movies,
classes
• Provision of services focusing on
maternal and child care
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