YOUNG members of the Walvis Bay Multipurpose Centre Teenagers Membership will attend a two-day workshop on Wednesday and Thursday to find out about teen sexual well being and the dangers related to intercourse at a younger age.
The programme, the centre’s first of its form, goals to coach youngsters on what they need to know after changing into sexually energetic, how intercourse impacts their bodily and emotional well being, and the best way to type wholesome relationships and make intercourse choices of their lives.
The session might be led by Dr Elifas Shapumba of Duneseven Medical Centre, a normal medical practitioner who believes that kids have the best to know their our bodies, the adjustments they undergo throughout puberty, and the providers out there to them.
“With growing sexual content material on social media and the way in which it reaches kids, it is necessary to lift consciousness amongst teenagers about each attraction and intercourse schooling,” mentioned Shapumba final week.
Hauwanga Walter (15), a member of the membership, believes that intercourse schooling in well being supplies younger folks with the data and expertise they should reside a wholesome sexual life for the remainder of their lives.
In response to Namboa Sheron (15), the marketing campaign will assist them perceive the dangers and penalties of sexual activity.
Mutani Tsuses, programme supervisor on the Walvis Bay Multipurpose Centre, believes that having a health care provider educate youngsters about sexual well being dangers and emotional well-being at their middle will have an effect on the youth.
“This marketing campaign will give them with a platform and an understanding of intercourse at a younger age,” mentioned Tsuses. She provides that this may even encourage youngsters to talk up and search recommendation about their sexuality.
“Group employees require these providers from personal establishments, resembling medical practices.”
The intercourse schooling marketing campaign is a part of the third version of ‘Dr Shapumba’s Free Medical Providers 2023’, which was launched earlier this 12 months in Walvis Bay and focuses on well being promotion, consciousness creation, and free medical therapy.
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