Fiji reproductive health practitioners have taken part in a one-day training program on reproductive health.
Program’s director, Joanne Cohen says Fiji has a high rate of sexually transmitted diseases.
Cohen told Radio Australia’s Pacific Beat program that condoms are not widely used or accepted and the prgram was part of a plan to merge counselling with other services available to patients.
“What we’ve done to try and normalise the use of condoms…we’ve actually worked with the Ministry of Health in Fiji so that every woman that comes into a ministry of health facility they are given this opportunity for awareness, for discussion about condoms,” she said.
The one-day training program was run by Pacific Counselling and Social Services, a non-government organisation in Suva.
Source:
Australia Network News
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