Course Preview
- Understanding patriarchy as a power structure.
- Learning how gender impacts sexual and reproductive health and rights.
- Learning the basic menstrual cycle, various methods of contraception and how they work.
- Learning to view the contraceptive methods and programmes from the gender and justice lens.
- Learning the technical information on safe abortion methods.
- Understanding the challenges and decision making matrix for seekers.
- Understanding the politics and practise of self-managed medical abortion.
Whether you are new to the safe abortion rights movement as an advocate or looking to uplevel your knowledge for improving your capacity as a researcher, programme manager, policy maker, public health expert, healthcare providers, trainer, doctor, nurse, clinic manager, lawyer, whether in NGO sector, academia or working with the government, this course is for you.
This is also for you if you work in
- sexual and reproductive health and rights
- safe abortion rights,
- family planning and contraception programmes,
- sex workers’ rights,
- adolescent girls’ issues,
- child marriage prevention,
- refugee and migrant crisis work,
- intersections with disability rights,
- LGBTQ+ rights,
- GBV and IPV
