Most parents and teachers are reluctant to discuss sensitive issues with children and inform them about the physical and emotional aspects of puberty, which pushes them to seek information from unreliable sources and exposes them to exploitation.
This finding was derived from a baseline study conducted by LifeLine, a non-governmental organisation.
Addressing a press conference in Jamshoro on Friday, Chief Executive LifeLine Omer Aftab said there was a severe lack of information in the 100 million-plus Pakistani youth.
To date, no serious, concerted efforts have been made to sensitise them on their basic rights. Without proper guidance, youths adopt bad ways and are scarred for life. The LSBE course, which is a major initiative, is being taught mostly in urban and semi-urban areas and ignores 62 percent of the population.
The objective of the study was to “gauge and assess the level of understanding of different key stakeholders about adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health right (SRHR) issues,” he said
Data was collected from nine districts of Pakistan — Islamabad, Lahore, Lodhran, Karachi, Jamshoro, Peshawar, Abbottabad, Quetta and Pishin. Adolescents, parents, teachers, politicians, prominent religious leaders, EDOs, district managers of population welfare departments and NGOs’ representatives of the select districts made the target respondents for the study.
Sixty-two percent of girls and 67 percent of boys in Islamabad have heard about their reproductive health rights, as compared to only 39 percent of girls and 50 percent of boys in Lahore, and 53 percent of girls and 48 percent of boys in Karachi.
Knowledge about contraceptive practices, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), emotional aspects of growing up and gender-based violence is low. These findings are also the part of the baseline study.
Lifeline also conducted a curriculum review and Learning Needs Assessment (LNA) of the Life Skill Based Education (LSBE) course taught in certain schools. The course imparts basic knowledge to adolescents to help them to cope with the physiological, psychological, political and social changes in their lives.
LifeLine’s review of this course says 84 percent of students between 12 and 15 years are in favour of the course being taught in schools.
Furthermore, no objections were raised to teaching the LSBE course by any quarter, including religious leaders and politicians.
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This finding was derived from a baseline study conducted by LifeLine, a non-governmental organisation.
Addressing a press conference in Jamshoro on Friday, Chief Executive LifeLine Omer Aftab said there was a severe lack of information in the 100 million-plus Pakistani youth.
To date, no serious, concerted efforts have been made to sensitise them on their basic rights. Without proper guidance, youths adopt bad ways and are scarred for life. The LSBE course, which is a major initiative, is being taught mostly in urban and semi-urban areas and ignores 62 percent of the population.
The objective of the study was to “gauge and assess the level of understanding of different key stakeholders about adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health right (SRHR) issues,” he said
Data was collected from nine districts of Pakistan — Islamabad, Lahore, Lodhran, Karachi, Jamshoro, Peshawar, Abbottabad, Quetta and Pishin. Adolescents, parents, teachers, politicians, prominent religious leaders, EDOs, district managers of population welfare departments and NGOs’ representatives of the select districts made the target respondents for the study.
Sixty-two percent of girls and 67 percent of boys in Islamabad have heard about their reproductive health rights, as compared to only 39 percent of girls and 50 percent of boys in Lahore, and 53 percent of girls and 48 percent of boys in Karachi.
Knowledge about contraceptive practices, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), emotional aspects of growing up and gender-based violence is low. These findings are also the part of the baseline study.
Lifeline also conducted a curriculum review and Learning Needs Assessment (LNA) of the Life Skill Based Education (LSBE) course taught in certain schools. The course imparts basic knowledge to adolescents to help them to cope with the physiological, psychological, political and social changes in their lives.
LifeLine’s review of this course says 84 percent of students between 12 and 15 years are in favour of the course being taught in schools.
Furthermore, no objections were raised to teaching the LSBE course by any quarter, including religious leaders and politicians.
http://images.thenews.com.pk/21-04-2013/ethenews/e-172564.htm
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