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Sexual health: working with women.


 Sex and sexuality, as well as cultural traditions, can be very sensitive areas for health workers. In Zimbabwe, as in many other societies, it is unacceptable to discuss sex publicly. However, women can and do gather together to discuss sex. The Women's Action Group (WAG), a grassroots organization working with women from both rural and urban Zimbabwe, initiated the Women's Health Information Project, which aimed to work with women to research their health needs and to implement ways of improving their health. WAG conducted a health information needs assessment through thirteen workshops across Zimbabwe, involving women from different backgrounds. Women were asked about their health problems and how their health could be improved; what traditional practices had positive or negative effects on their health; and what areas they needed more information on. These workshops enabled WAG to tackle sensitive issues, such as sexual practices, STDs, reproductive health and related cancers. During the workshops, it was discovered that women lacked information on sexual health. As a result, WAG produced a series of self-help booklets entitled "Getting to know our bodies" with the purpose of enabling women to understand, prevent, and cope with conditions that affect their bodies and to appreciate conditions that might affect them and their partners. WAG has since conducted follow-up workshops to help women use the booklets and to find further ways in improving their sexual health.
