BSS, Rajshahi :
Highlighting the importance of making the adolescents aware on reproductive health speakers at a dialogue here unanimously said that teachers can play a vital towards disseminating the idea among students.
They viewed education on physical change, sex and reproductive health for the secondary level students should be disseminated properly.
Local unit of Family Planning Association of Bangladesh (FPAB) organized the dialogue titled “Sexual and Reproductive Health for School Students” at its office on Tuesday, where some government officials and teachers attended.
District Education Officer Rafiqul Islam and Upazila Family Planning Officer Sohel Rana addressed the meeting as chief and special guests respectively with FPAB District Officer Arun Shil in the chair.
FPAB Life Member Proshanta Kumar Shaha, Upazila Education Officer Muktadir Ahmed, Youth Development Officers Sayeed Ali Sheikh and Jahurul Islam and Social Service Officer Abu Taher also spoke.
Ensuring adolescent-friendly reproductive health services has become an urgent need for making the adolescents free from various misconceptions related to reproductive health.
The speakers narrated importance of learning about physical change at the juncture of age, sexual and reproductive health, sexually transmitted diseases, premature pregnancy and complicacy during pregnancy, safe delivery and motherhood and other related issues.
Various issues on how to create awareness among the adolescents about
physical change, sexual and ‘reproductive health, hygiene, nutrition, dowry,child marriage for their normal and safer growth and preventing social crimes were discussed in the meeting.
They said adolescent reproductive health is one of the most sensitive
health issues. They added that the best ways and means should be devised to ensure adolescent-friendly services to the students.
Arun Shil said the FPAB has been implementing various motivational
programmes for welfare of the youths in terms of their reproductive and sexual health. It has, so far, brought around 20,000 students of 42 secondary students in Paba Upazila of the district under sexual and reproductive health education during the last two years.
Highlighting the importance of making the adolescents aware on reproductive health speakers at a dialogue here unanimously said that teachers can play a vital towards disseminating the idea among students.
They viewed education on physical change, sex and reproductive health for the secondary level students should be disseminated properly.
Local unit of Family Planning Association of Bangladesh (FPAB) organized the dialogue titled “Sexual and Reproductive Health for School Students” at its office on Tuesday, where some government officials and teachers attended.
District Education Officer Rafiqul Islam and Upazila Family Planning Officer Sohel Rana addressed the meeting as chief and special guests respectively with FPAB District Officer Arun Shil in the chair.
FPAB Life Member Proshanta Kumar Shaha, Upazila Education Officer Muktadir Ahmed, Youth Development Officers Sayeed Ali Sheikh and Jahurul Islam and Social Service Officer Abu Taher also spoke.
Ensuring adolescent-friendly reproductive health services has become an urgent need for making the adolescents free from various misconceptions related to reproductive health.
The speakers narrated importance of learning about physical change at the juncture of age, sexual and reproductive health, sexually transmitted diseases, premature pregnancy and complicacy during pregnancy, safe delivery and motherhood and other related issues.
Various issues on how to create awareness among the adolescents about
physical change, sexual and ‘reproductive health, hygiene, nutrition, dowry,child marriage for their normal and safer growth and preventing social crimes were discussed in the meeting.
They said adolescent reproductive health is one of the most sensitive
health issues. They added that the best ways and means should be devised to ensure adolescent-friendly services to the students.
Arun Shil said the FPAB has been implementing various motivational
programmes for welfare of the youths in terms of their reproductive and sexual health. It has, so far, brought around 20,000 students of 42 secondary students in Paba Upazila of the district under sexual and reproductive health education during the last two years.
