Building Life Skill Through Reproductive Health Literacy Reduces Vulnerability To Hiv/aids
Constructing Life Skill by means of Reproductive Well being Literacy Reduces Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS
Anirudha Alam
Reproductive well being literacy has a sustainable preventive impact to promote a healthy lifestyle as nicely as responsible behavior. It is among the most effective tools for lowering adolescents’ vulnerability to HIV/AIDS by way of providing necessary understanding, stimulating positive attitudes and bringing about life skills. Life skill engendered from reproductive wellness literacy mobilizes efforts targeting to lessen high risk behavior.
Greatest practices may be adopted undoubtedly by means of peer education resulting in positive attitude within positive environment. An efficient reproductive wellness literacy approach is multi-sectoral and integrated to address all elements that boost vulnerability as for HIV/AIDS. Vulnerable sexual behavior nourished by ill believes, discrimination, drug and alcohol abuse, peer pressure and so on deprives people to improve ability to stop STIs. Ensuring to attain life skill, reproductive wellness literacy fosters analytical thinking and healthy habits. Adolescents having qualitative reproductive well being literacy are very significantly responsible to gather adequate knowledge and potential expertise to curb infection of HIV/AIDS.
Adolescents need to have skills necessarily to practice safe behavior through reproductive health literacy with a view to creating self-esteem extensively to foil undesired peer and adult pressure. Thus they might have such core life skills as negotiation, ability of working together, self-awareness, decision-producing, critical thinking, bargaining and diversity of creativity via gender session, orientation, training, courtyard meeting for exchanging views and experiences.
Adolescent girls are extremely much vulnerable suffering from discrimination and depriving of rights due to their social and cultural values and ill believes. Consequently they are mostly drop-out from formal education and created resort to risky behavior. Lack of access to HIV/AIDS information and prevention services provokes them to practice unsafe sexual behavior.
Adolescents, particularly the girls, have to have exclusive opportunity to be conscious of HIV/AIDS via preventive education that they are able to maintain their future partner’s reproductive and sexual wellness. Parents frequently feel embarrassed and hesitate to discuss with their adolescents to teach them about STIs frankly due to their powerful religious believes, superstition practices and moral resistance.
Qualitative reproductive well being literacy integrating preventive education to promote life skill ensures the social empowerment of adolescents. Academic curriculum should be developed and conducted to stimulate the creativity of adolescent girls via the holistic approach of income generating activities (IGA) internalizing gender awareness. Thus the impact of qualitative reproductive wellness literacy will sustain comprehensively creating them socially empowered. Soon after a particular period completing their secondary education, they will be able to influence their community as a persuasive pressure group to be aware of HIV/AIDS. In the name of females empowerment, this type of life skill has a far-reaching and promising development output.
Adolescents have the consecutive acceptance and access to the respective community people. They might organize community based organizations (CBOs) in order to raise awareness. In the course of ongoing community mobilization via CBOs, adolescents will be able efficiently to set the community people thinking about HIV/AIDS prevention. Eventually the knowledge on HIV/AIDS can spread swiftly and successfully as per desired outcome. Leaving a lengthy lasting mark upon the community individuals, thus community based HIV/AIDS prevention program will be expanded by way of advocacy and behavioral alter communication (BCC) on a fantastic scale. In this aspect, the adolescents have to be trained up to conduct intensive interpersonal communication (IPC) that they may present information on HIV/AIDS prevention in a brief, dramatic and memorable fashion.
It is the utmost essential to comprehend the possible that the academic curriculum has to fulfill the appropriate of adolescents to reproductive well being literacy as for attaining life skill. Then the aftermath makes them committed to the campaign of HIV/AIDS prevention seriously.
Anirudha Alam
Deputy Director (Info & Development Communication) & Trainer
BEES (Bangladesh Extension Education Services)
183, Lane 2, Eastern Road, New DOHS
Mohakhali, Dhaka 1206
Bangladesh.
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Ref: UNESCO, World Bank