Health Education

Saddened by the news of the passing of the student UNFPA is renewing calls for quality reproductive health education in schools to prevent such tragedies.

“This was a young girl with her life ahead of her,” said UNFPA Country Representative, Marielle Sander.

“All the contributions she was to make for her family and community have been lost,” she added.

UNFPA is calling for better health education so that both boys and girls are taught about respectful and safe relationships, in addition to reproductive health information such as family planning.

Executive Manager of the National Department of Health Public Health Division Dr Sibauk Bieb said this when opening a three-day refresher training on Healthy Island Concept outside Port Moresby recently.

“If you need to see how this concept works, you look at smaller island countries. You will see how the Healthy Island Concept is working. The communities are beautiful and they are very well set up. People in PNG need to wake up and embrace it,’’ said Dr. Bieb.