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"Wifaq" Center discusses reproductive health and family balance

مركز "وفاق" يناقش الصحة الإنجابية والتوازن الأسري

Yesterday morning, the Family Counseling Center “Wefaq” held a training workshop entitled “Reproductive Health and Family Balance,” targeting the center’s staff of consultants, counselors, and specialists in the relevant departments and divisions. The workshop was presented by the technical advisor at the “Wefaq” Center, Mr. Ahmed Abdel Nazer. This workshop comes within a project to integrate education about reproductive health into the center’s services, based on its vision (a pioneering institution in supporting stable marital and family life), and its mission (to contribute to building and strengthening the bonds of marriage and family, providing counseling, and reducing negative effects), and in harmony with the center’s objectives. . Through this, it seeks to integrate the reproductive health component into its work programs and family consultations, and to strengthen the capabilities of its frameworks and specialists in the field and in the communication axis around it, in a way that helps in a more accurate and realistic diagnosis of the crisis family situations they treat, and provides greater opportunities to find solutions for them or direct their owners to the competent authorities. . It is useful to point out in this area that all relevant international and Arab studies confirm beyond doubt that the largest percentage of violence inflicted on women within the family is from the husband, and most of it is related to matters related to the private life of the spouses, reproductive decisions, and the like. The workshop aims to enhance the cognitive capabilities of participants about reproductive health: definition, terminology, elements, and raise awareness of reproductive rights and their impact on women’s empowerment and family balance, in addition to reaching consensus on the formulas and areas of integrating reproductive health within the center’s activities. During the workshop, Counselor Ahmed Abdel Nazer reviewed three basic axes: reproductive health: the concept and its implications, elements of reproductive health, reproductive rights and their relationship to women’s empowerment and development, and reproductive health in family counseling at the “Wefaq” Communication Center, the terminology used, space and boundaries. It is worth noting that the Center will hold a subsequent workshop that will be devoted to formulating the broad outlines of the content of the guide for integrating reproductive health into the Center’s programs and activities.