Global Humanitaria -a Spanish NGO- promoted with the help of Fundación Juan Bautista Gutiérrez (Guatemala) several training workshops on sexual health for 250 young people from three different municipalities of the Department of Petén (northern Guatemala).This workshop aimed to reduce the high infant and maternal mortality rates, early pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs / HIV) teaching the youngs how to have a healthy sex life. All this training was divided into ten different workshops that were also directed on self-steem coaching, decision making and communication.
The training program was designed for young leaders from San Luis, Dolores and Poptún in order to make them share the knowledge acquired to other students in the future.
In some departments of Guatemala, teen pregnancy and induced abortions are a public health problem. According to Prensa Libre, abortion is the fouth cause of maternal mortality in Guatemala, with data from the Epidemiological Research Center in Sexual and Reproductive Health. In this country, the average fertility rate is four births per woman, and the maternal mortality rate is 290 per 100,000 births.
From the 5th to the 7th of May, Guatemala will host the V Latin American Congress and the I Central American Congress on Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights, which woll bring together participants from Latin America to discuss about health and human rights.
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