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In one study, which cost about 300 thousand dollars and unique at the international level in Oaxaca, it was found that access to information on reproductive health, improving substantially the quality of life of adolescents in rural areas.

This was announced Sharon Bissell director of the Mexico office of the Macarthur Foundation sponsored the study, which he said took place over a period of five years between 2004, and 2008 in which the information was lifted in 27 rural communities in the Valleys Oaxaca’s central Slough, Santa Catalina and Minas Sumatran, Scotland, among others.

He explained that it was a great effort for the implementation of Care Model for Rural Adolescents (MARA) to know every year the progress of their knowledge and practices to protect themselves from sexually transmitted infections, the Virus of Inmudeficiencia (HIV) and avoid unwanted pregnancies.

It is one of the few studies of this type around the world about reproductive health among young people, because there is no rigorous research.

But he said there that global studies, which provide scientific information when and also promotes the exercise of rights and gender equity, helps to lower case by infections and early pregnancies.

He explained that the Macarthur Foundation is a nonprofit association that is dedicated to research on issues of sexuality and improving reproductive health and adolescent and maternal health to prevent high rates of morbidity and mortality.

In this context said that Oaxaca is one of the first places in terms of these public health problems.

This indicated that the foundation, sponsored this study because of the importance which involves working with young people about health products to support exercise their rights and promote their individual development which will not be cut short by health problems or unwanted pregnancies

The Spanish Federation of Sexology Societies (FESS)-which represents almost two thousand professionals and 31 companies sexology study in Spain, yesterday criticized the “religious elements” in which it is based sex education is taught in some schools of Valencia, to the detriment of scientific information. FESS, in a statement, expressed “concern” over the policy adopted by the Generalist Valencia, which “put the health professionals of sexual education subsidized private schools.”

The Federation explained that the Comprehensive Plan for Sexual Health for 2011 set by the Executive Valencia allow “complete freedom” to the counselors of each school to choose the methodology and content in these subjects. Thus, “many Catholic schools in the community have decided to impart training materials offered by the Institutor Valencia no de Fertilidad, (IVAF), with strong religious component.” According to the group, “may now enter as a pillar of the contents in this regard the promotion of continence and virtue of chastity, pushing the sexual health professionals in teaching and not based on science but ideology, morality or religion.”

The president of the FESS, Mien Larrazabal, emphasized that “the decision of the Government to allow entry into various schools of teaching materials based on scientific evidence not be detrimental to the students”, so called for the return to the previous system that, according to him, “if they prevail scientific information.” It called upon the “return of health professionals to control the curriculum of the subject.”