Pregnancy Choices training

Over the years participants in the SE&X course have expressed interest in doing further training - particularlly in the area of unplanned pregnancy and counselling around this issue.

WELL.... SHineSA is offering a two day course on October 16 -17 that: Defines and explains all the options available to women experiencing an unplanned pregnancy. The course is open to health workers and professionals (including youth workers) who encounter clients with unplanned pregnancy.

Day 1 will focus on information provision by experienced workers from the women's reproductive health sector.

Day 2 will focus on applied practice and counselling responses.

The course will cost $110 for 2 days or $60 for a single day registration.

If you are interested please contact the course administrator on 08 8300 5317 or SHineSACourses@health.sa.gov.au

or here to get your registration form

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Female circumsision clitoris reconstruction?

One of the issues that comes up in the courses that I teach is female circumsision, what it is and what it means.
Here is an interesting article (copied from http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/80406.php) that you may be interested in.

About 100 women in Burkina Faso have had surgery to reconstruct the clitoris and restore some sexual sensation lost from female genital cutting since the country last year became the first in Africa to offer the procedure, Michel Akotionga -- head gynecologist at the main public hospital in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso -- recently said, Reuters reports. According to Reuters, as many as three-quarters of women in Burkina Faso have undergone genital cutting (Schwarz, Reuters, 8/21). Female genital cutting -- sometimes referred to as female circumcision or female genital mutilation -- is a practice in which there is a partial or full removal of the labia, clitoris or both. About 6,000 girls undergo the practice daily worldwide, and the World Health Organization estimates that 100 million to 140 million women worldwide are circumcised. At least 90% of women who undergo genital cutting live in developing countries -- such as Djibouti, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, Somalia and Sudan -- while almost no women undergo the practice in Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, according to UNICEF (Kaiser Daily Women's Health Policy Report, 8/10).The reconstructive surgery costs about $150 in public hospitals and as much as $400 in private clinics in Burkina Faso. According to Reuters, the surgery is possible because most of a woman's clitoris is embedded within the body, and usually only the few external centimeters are removed, which allows a physician to reattach some of the embedded part. For the surgery, doctors "open the skin around the remaining clitoris, dissect it and pull it toward the exterior end to fix it at the skin with stitches," Akotionga said, adding, "The remaining part of the clitoris is ... enervated, which is to say it has nerves, but it doesn't play exactly the same role as in a woman who was never excised." Alice Behrendt of Plan International said she is concerned that some families might try to re-excise women who have the reconstructive surgery. "Already there are cases where the parents or grandparents think the excision was not done fully enough, that the girl is not yet pure, and they insist on her doing it again," Behrendt said. Benjamine Doamba, a campaigner against female genital cutting in the country, said, "I support science that permits such medical advances, but for me it is essential to stop the practice altogether so there is no need to repair anything later" (Reuters, 8/21). "Reprinted with permission from http://www.kaisernetwork.org/. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives, or sign up for email delivery at http://www.kaisernetwork.org/dailyreports/healthpolicy. The Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report is published for kaisernetwork.org, a free service of The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation . © 2005 Advisory Board Company and Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.

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cervix screening/new contraceptive technology/young refugee perspective

Sexual Health Update Day
for Nurses & Midwives

Allied health professionals welcome

Co-convened by
SHine SA & SA Cervix Screening Program

Friday 14 Sept 2007
9 am - 5 pm

Women’s & Children’s Hospital - level 1 Lecture Theatre
72 King William Rd, North Adelaide

Catering provided
Car parking: $10 all day parking at
Rogerson Car Park Broughham Place, North Adelaide

SACSP session - no charge
SHine SA session - $25


Morning session presented by
SA Cervix Screening Program
9 am – 12.30 pm

Guest Presenter: Assoc Professor Margaret Davy AM
Director Gynaecological Oncology Unit RAH
Other topics: Screening participation strategies, and up-date of National HPV Vaccination Program

SA Cervix Screening Program phone: (08) 8226 8131 or email: sue.elliott@health.sa.gov.au


Afternoon session presented by
SHine SA
1.30 pm – 5 pm

Dr Katrina Allen: New Contraceptive Technologies
Dr Nick Williams: Pre & Post Test Hep C Counselling
Huria Bayani: Young refugee’s perspective on sexual health
Jacqueline Riviere: CALD young people & women accessing services
Fatuma Hassan Mohamed: Experiences as Somalian Nurse in refugee camp & FGM

SHine SA phone: Edwina (08) 8300 5317 or email SHineSACourses@health.sa.gov.au


Please register by Wednesday 5 September
on the attached registration form

Why do people have sex???

DUH:


WASHINGTON - After exhaustively compiling a list of the 237 reasons why people have sex, researchers found that young men and women get intimate for mostly the same motivations.
It’s more about lust in the body than a love connection in the heart.
College-aged men and women agree on their top reasons for having sex — they were attracted to the person, they wanted to experience physical pleasure and “it feels good,” according to a peer-reviewed study in the August edition of Archives of Sexual Behavior. Twenty of the top 25 reasons given for having sex were the same for men and women.
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