Popular Education in Sexual and Reproductive Health

experience report of a university extension project at promoting women's health

Abstract

An experience report on a university extension project called "Popular Health Education and the Promotion of Women's Sexual Health" is presented, which aimed to provide an environment of dialogue, exchange, and affection for students, teachers and women from the Alto do Sacrifício community in Vitória de Santo Antão, Pernambuco state. The stages of the workshops to promote women's sexual health are presented, with a script and activities that were applied to reduce vulnerability on this issue and provide knowledge for self-care and autonomy in intimate relationships. The method used was conversation circles, listening, and sharing knowledge. The experience was extremely important, both for the university students involved and for the women in the community who took part in the action, due to the learning opportunity. It was found that this action contributed to academic training in the practice of popular health education, and to ponder on the liberating, and anti-colonial education, through awareness, deconstruction of conceptions, taboos, and prejudices, intending to overcome violence, illnesses and gender inequality, to promote women's sexual health.