CONTENTS
- The World Takes Notice
- Intimate Partner Abuse
- Sexual Coercion
- Impact on Reproductive Health
- Threats to Health and Development
- Health Providers Play a Key Role
- An Agenda for Change
HIGHLIGHTS
- What lies behind violence?
- Culture: a double-edged sword
- Child sexual abuse is widespread
- Violence harms women in many different ways
- *Pullout guide: What Health Providers Can Do
- Responding to violence: Lessons learned
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December, 1999
Series L, Number 11
Issues in World Health
Involving Youth
- In Mexico the Instituto Mexicano de Investigación de Familia y Población A.C. (IMIFAP), a nongovernmental organization, has developed an experiential workshop for adolescents to help prevent violence in dating and friendship relationships. The workshop, called Rostros y Máscaras de la Violencia (Faces and Masks of Violence), uses participatory techniques to help young people explore expectations and feelings about love, sex, and romance; to distinguish between romantic and controlling behavior; and to understand how traditional gender roles inhibit both male and female behavior (142).
- The Ugandan magazine for teens, Straight Talk, focuses on relationships and stresses gender equity, positive values, and interpersonal skills. A recent edition entitled A NO Means NO uses a comic-book style to discuss sexualcoercion and abuse. More than 115,000 copies of Straight Talk are distributed monthly throughout Uganda and supplemented with workshops (425) (see image below).
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| A Ugandan teens' magazine directly addresses sexual coercion. |
- A Canadian group, Men for Change, has developed an anti-violence curriculum called “Healthy Relationships.” Designed for middle-school youth, it includes three modules: Dealing with Agression; Gender Equality and Media Awareness; and Forming Healthy Relationships (391).
