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Empowering for Equality

Empowering for Equality. Swaran L Naidu Associate Professor in O&G Fiji National University Viseisei Sai Health Centre . MDG3- Gender Equality. Females are as intelligent as males as shown by primary and secondary schools results So what is it that leaves women behind after this stage ?.

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Empowering for Equality

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  1. Empowering for Equality Swaran L Naidu Associate Professor in O&G Fiji National University ViseiseiSai Health Centre

  2. MDG3- Gender Equality • Females are as intelligent as males as shown by primary and secondary schools results • So what is it that leaves women behind after this stage?

  3. Reproductive Role? • Difference in reproductive role to men - disempowers them. -trapped into not having control -over their reproduction -socio- economically -and becomes dependent on the male partner. • This leads to many of the abuses that women suffer. • Motherhood instead of being a celebration becomes a yoke and a burden

  4. Fiji • High Unmet need for contraception • 30% contraceptive use • 10% teen Pregnancy • High rates of unplanned pregnancy • STI rates high <25 years • Cervical Cancer rates very high

  5. Disempowerment of women • High poverty- 40% below poverty line • High unemployment among women • Unaware of their rights • Lack of sense of their own worth & value • Society - believe that they are inferior • High rates of Gender Based Violence

  6. Response -Recognition that Reproductive Health can not be delivered from hospitals and health centres only -Human Rights Project “Strengthening rights of rural women by providing them with knowledge, accessand control of their Reproductive health”. Funded By European Union

  7. Empowerment of Rural Women and Girls • Our Project: attempts to help remove the yoke/burden from the most under privileged rural women • Helping them celebrate who they are and try and realise their full potential • Hope- help towards gender equality

  8. Project • Education • Awareness raising • Advocacy • Targeted health care through outreach clinics Main Areas Covered: Reproductive Health Rights/ Human Rights Family Planning/ contraceptive use Safe sex STIs Cervical Cancer Screening

  9. Target Groups-Lautoka, Ba and Nadi • Schools Girls, University students • Youth groups • Faith Based Groups • Women’s groups • Rural Women & men in Villages and settlements • Teachers of the Family Life Education Program

  10. 2 year Project TEAM: • Gynaecologist • 2 RH nurses • 1 Health Promotion Officer • 3 Health Educators • Driver • Data Entry

  11. Mid Feb to June 2013 Stats EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS • 35 villages/ settlements (1200 women) • 6 youth/ faith-based groups (200) • 6 schools (202 students)

  12. Workshops • 2 Teachers workshops –Up skilling in RH education • 2 Women’s Advocates in RH Workshops -2 • 1 Youth Workshop • 1 University Students Workshop

  13. THE RH OUTREACH CLINICS • Total Number of Women Seen------------1066 • Pap Smears performed----------------------784 • Number of breast examinations-----------1066 • Referrals to Lautoka /VSHC—-------------145 • Suspicious Breast Lumps---------------------15 • Number of Paps with Trichomonas-------44/ 425 results • High grade Pap Abnormality-----------------9/ 425 results • Cases of Cervical Cancer Seen---------------3 • (So far- received 425 results of the 784 Pap smears performed)

  14. Our Lives …changing!

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