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Gender, sex and equal health: including boys in the HPV vaccination programme in Swedish primary schools

In Gender & Sex, Sex & relationships education, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs), Young people

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Ylva Odenbring & Lisa Lindén (2023) Gender, sex and equal health: school nurses’ strategies and experiences of including boys in the HPV vaccination programme in Swedish primary schools, Sex Education, 23:5, 617-630, DOI: 10.1080/14681811.2022.2106959 Abstract: Since autumn 2020, boys in the fifth year of school (11-year-old students) in Sweden have been offered human papillomavirus (HPV)...

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Gender equality indicators from the Australian Bureau of Statistics

By J Pope

In Gender & Sex, Sexual, gendered & partner violence

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Australian Bureau of Statistics, continually updated Key ABS economic and social indicators measuring equality between males and females, including gender pay gap and life expectancy. Click picture to enlarge Contents: Key indicators Gender pay gap Work Education Health and wellbeing Crime Work-life balance The content presented in these indicators may not be the most recent data available...

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Open letter to PM signed by over 250 organisations, including SHINE SA

By J Pope

In Disability, LGBTIQ+ issues, SHINE SA news & events

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23/11/2021 SHINE SA are pleased to be one of the many signatories to the Joint Letter to the Prime Minister calling for laws that protect us all, equally. Media Release from Equality Australia, November 23, 2021: Olympian Ian Thorpe has today teamed up with LGBTIQ+ organisation, Equality Australia, to launch a campaign urging the Australian Parliament to oppose a Religious Discrimination Bill...

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SHINE SA Welcomes Australia-Wide Ban on Harassment Outside Abortion Clinics

By J Pope

In Pregnancy choices, Reproductive health, SHINE SA news & events

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SHINE SA, 12.08.21 SHINE SA welcomes the latest legislation in Western Australia that protects the safety and privacy of people seeking reproductive healthcare. WA is the final state in Australia to place these protections. In November 2020, South Australia passed similar legislation know as the ‘Safe Access Zones’ bill. This bill ensures people seeking abortions and those that provide them can...

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Nearly half of all women are denied bodily autonomy, says new UNFPA report ‘My Body is My Own’

By J Pope

In Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), Reproductive health, Sexual, gendered & partner violence

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United Nations Population Fund, 14th April 2021 Nearly half of women in 57 developing countries are denied the right to decide whether to have sex with their partners, use contraception or seek health care, according to UNFPA’s 2021 flagship State of World Population report, released today. For the first time, a United Nations report focuses on bodily autonomy: the power and agency to make...

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UNESCO paper busts myths about comprehensive sexuality education

By J Pope

In Sex & relationships education

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UNESCO, 2019 Comprehensive sexuality education is an essential part of a good quality education that improves sexual and reproductive health, argues Facing the Facts, a new policy paper by the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report at UNESCO that seeks to dispel social and political resistance to sexuality education in many countries. Globally, each year, 15 million girls marry before the age...

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