POST GRRADUATE DIPLOMA IN SEXUAL  REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH

This post graduate diploma offers students, professionals and health care workers with skills and knowledge in sexual and reproductive health. Sexuality encompasses diverse behaviors and meanings that are shaped by individual, social, cultural, and historical factors. From the local to the global, a significant number of public health challenges involve sexual and reproductive health: HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections, unintended pregnancies, access to family planning services, sex education, maternal mortality, sexual violence, and discrimination against/stigmatization of sexually non-conforming individuals. Promoting sexual and reproductive rights and agency, as well as respect for the dignity, equality, and rights of all persons, are also public health issues… This course in Sexual and Reproductive Health approaches sexual and reproductive health as states of physical, emotional, mental, and social well-being. The curriculum explores and challenges the social inequalities that have had profound effects on sexuality and health. Students can specialize as researchers or practitioners, and emerge prepared to work in agencies and organizations involved in programmatic or advocacy work, policy or evaluation research, or in direct service delivery…

Course objectives

-The objective of the course is that the student will

-Gain knowledge about reproductive health in a global perspective

-Have knowledge about reproductive rights

-Have knowledge on how sexual violence impacts women’s lives

Gain understanding of birth control

Discuss challenges affecting men and women’s sexual reproductive health

Discuss attitudes and behaviours towards sexual health