The title says it all, unfortunately have a lot of topics that are not spoken about in the community I come from. This then creates space for a number of things to occur, which eventually hurt the very people who are falling to speak about the matter. Take a moment to read this, holding back your judgements and try to understand why these topics are unspoken? What are the social factors that contribute to it being unspoken? Don't stop there, think about religious,cultural and other factors that can make the world we live in the way it is.
-Poverty
- Safety
-Lack of Health Education
- STD is not an issue with the older generation, but with the younger youth they are indulging in sexual intimacy before marriage.
- Topic of sexuality is very taboo in the community.. Youth in cedar riverside are having high number of cases in STI’s as well as STD.. Hard to comfort such issues.. High stigmatized let alone talk about it. The only education is out of sight out of mind…(Abstinence only)
- Community has come with a lot of baggage ex.(their diet is not in line with that of their new adoptive country)..Young people come to this environment and look at the culture of rock and roll, sex and drugs and the parents are not aware of what their kids are exposed to. The younger generation are at risk because their parents are not aware of what their children is exposed to..
- Children are exposed to the content that is featured in rap songs, where there is a lot of talk about sex and female body parents, drugs..
- You cant get away from the exposure of sex, drugs and experimenting and doing what you want to do
- If your not married you should not be having sex
- Its not about education in terms of prevention but educating the youth about what the religion says about sex
- Get religious scholars to talk about the issue of sex before marriage and how to seek help if one was to engage in it..
- No one talks about AIDS/HIV we talk about youth violence
- Formation of attitude towards SEX
- You don’t go into an event thinking that
- If I get AIDS/HIV I won’t die any sooner than I’m suppose to
- Religion teaches you to do what you have to do to be
- TV shows nothing to do with culture but everything to do with society
- We are all in those situations to make choices
- We are all provided with the education and information, but the exposure
- The way that we eat
- Culture a lot of sugar and oil which results to diagnosis in diabetes or high cholesterol as well as high blood pressure
- Find a way to disaggregate the moral issue of sex from the public health issue of AIDS – break the silence in order to be able to address AIDS without making victims outcasts.
- Media doesn’t explain why the numbers are so high in one particular community so never use the media as a scapegoat.
- Immigrant communities the tvs are turned on all days of the day and is used as a form of entertainment for children
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