Sexual education in Sudan

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Evidence based approaches to sexuality education for adolescents – Adolescent health and development with a particular focus on sexual and reproductive health in Sudan Hani Mohammed Ibrahim Bashir Reproductive and Child Health Research Unit at University of Medical Sciences and Technology, Khartoum hani.bashir85@gmail.com

Introduction Preparing children and young people in the transition to adulthood is one of the humanity’s great challenges, with human sexuality and relationships at its core. During primary school, our knowledge about sexual education is scanty and we categorized it as secret or adult issue. In the secondary school many components of adolescent health and sexuality education have been integrated with an existing subject, as biology, religious and primary health care. Sexuality education is defined as an age-appropriate, culturally relevant approach to teaching about sex and relationships by providing scientifically accurate, realistic, non-judgmental information [1]. In this assignment I will mention the current situation of sexual education in Sudan compare with our sexual education we got in school, barriers to expand or improve sexuality education and how to overcome them.

Sexuality education in Sudan In the past our knowledge about sexual education is not taught as a separate subject in the formal education in Sudan, as schools are the main places for starting and delivering sexual education and programs, Sudan has a lower primary and secondary school enrollment rate 54% and 30%


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