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Addressing sexual health with children and adolescents at school is challenging, due to the need to overcome, above all, the stigmas associated with the subject, however, it is essential to recognize the role of the school in preventing abuse and exposure to the internet, therefore, using this environment as a means of support in the promotion and prevention of health means care in the transmitted information, and pedagogical and multidisciplinary support.

Approach to health and sexuality in childhood and adolescence by medical students in a quilombola community in Bahia, Brazil: Post Pandemic Trends Education

Luana Leal Gonzaga, Jessica Sabrina Gonçalves Fernandes, Sabrina Neves Ribeiro, Gabriela Garcia de Carvalho Laguna, andNara Lúcia Fonseca Rebouças

Approach to health and sexuality in childhood and adolescence by medical students in a quilombola community in Bahia, Brazil

Luana Leal Gonzaga, Jessica Sabrina Gonçalves Fernandes, Sabrina Neves Ribeiro, Gabriela Garcia de Carvalho Laguna, and Nara Lúcia Fonseca Rebouças
Universidade Federal da Bahia | IFMSA-Brazil

The quilombola population in Brazil is in a state of social vulnerability, associated with the political and social invisibility to which it is maintained and which can be considered a consequence of the slavery process. Thus, they are more exposed to precarious living conditions and greater health risks, remaining more anxious about injuries in general, necessarily making a comprehensive approach to these groups. Thus, this report aims to describe the experience of the action “Mandacaruem Debate: Approach to health and sexuality in childhood and adolescence”, carried out at a school in a quilombo in the interior of Bahia, Brazil, in May 2023. The activity was developed by a group of medical students, at the request of the community, to promote learning about health and sex education for the school-age population of this location. (…)

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Menstrual poverty: An approach beyond the tampon | Experience Report - Action

Ana Carolina Magnavita Costa, Kamila Andrade Santan, Gabriella Lucas de Assis, Ludiane Matos Garcia Sampaio,
Caroline Gouveia Borba e Souza, andSophia Santana Amaral
Universidade Tiradentes ( Aracaju-SE) | IFMSA-Brazil

The action took place on May 12, 2023, at Tiradentes University, and May 24, 2023, at Associação Mulheres de Peito, both locations located in Aracaju/SE. It was a communication experience with students and the target audience about the social aspects involving menstrual poverty, emphasizing the effects on the health of people who menstruate. The campaign aimed to educate about the impacts of menstrual poverty on reproductive health, through debate, with medical students, about menstrual dignity and understanding the importance of public policies for the minority affected by this problem. In addition, support was offered through the collection and distribution of personal hygiene products. (…)

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