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Manual de informações dirigido especialmente para pais, estudantes, professores e agentes multiplicadores de informações. O manual traz informações sobre comportamentos sexuais, o conhecimento do corpo humano e o seu funcionamento, a sexualidade em diferentes fases, os principais problemas sexuais, todos métodos anticoncepcionais, as diferentes formas de manisfestação da sexualidade e os fatores que podem melhorar o prazer sexual
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Síndrome da Imunodeficiência Adquirida/epidemiologia , Síndrome da Imunodeficiência Adquirida/prevenção & controle , Anticoncepção , Sexualidade , MulheresRESUMO
PIP: The women's health movement is developing an increasing number of negative campaigns against various contraceptive methods based on three assumptions: 1) user-controlled methods are better for women than provider-controlled methods, 2) long-acting methods are undesirable because of their susceptibility to abuse, and 3) systemic methods carry unacceptable health risks to women. While these objections have sparked helpful debate, criticizing an overreliance on such methods is one thing and calling for bans on the provision of injectables and implants and on the development of vaccine contraceptives is another. Examination of the terms "provider-controlled," "user-controlled," and "long-acting" reveals that their definitions are not as clear-cut as opponents would have us believe. Some women's health advocates find the methods that are long-acting and provider-controlled to be the most problematic. They also criticize the near 100% contraceptive effectiveness of the long-acting methods despite the fact that the goal of contraception is to prevent pregnancy. It is wrong to condemn these methods because of their link to population control policies of the 1960s, and it is important to understand that long-acting, effective methods are often beneficial to women who require contraception for 20-22 years of their lives. Arguments against systemic methods (including RU-486 for early abortion and contraceptive vaccines) rebound around issues of safety. Feminists have gone so far as to create an intolerable situation by publishing books that criticize these methods based on erroneous conclusions and faulty scientific analysis. While women's health advocates have always rightly called for bans on abuse of various methods, they have not extended this ban to the methods themselves. In settings where other methods are not available, bans can lead to harm or maternal deaths. Another perspective can be used to consider methods in terms of their relationship with the user (repeated application). While feminists have called for more barrier and natural methods, most people in the world today refuse to use condoms even though they are the best protection from infection. Instead science should pursue promising new methods as well as continue to improve existing methods and to fill important gaps. Feminists should be advocates for women and their diverse needs rather than advocates against specific contraceptive methods.^ieng