Experience report of a workshop on youth sexuality at a public school in Uberlândia, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Abstract

According to the National Curriculum Guidelines for the Medical course, it is up to medical students to know, experience and implement public health policies. Considering this, we, 3 medical students from the Federal University of Uberlândia and 2 coordinators, professors from medical course, prepared an extension project, March 2018 until January 2019. Its objective was presenting the concept of Harm Reduction to young people from a public school in the city through Popular Health Education. We started the project with the agreement for the activities by the chosen school. We opted for a school located in the central area of ​​the city that offered evening high school, in regular modalities and also the program of Education for Youth and Adults. Among the various suggested topics, the topic sexuality appeared in most votes. The workshop on sexuality was then built in four stages, namely: warm-up, activity 1, activity 2 and feedback. A total of 52 students from three different classes, one from each year of high school, participated in the workshop. However, with difficulty, we could to involve most students in the classroom, allowing the participation and exposure of diverse ideas, the emergence of controversy and enriching information to the group.