“The Talk”: Raising questions about sex on a Catholic campus
Talking about sex on a Jesuit campus may seem taboo. But that doesn’t mean it’s not happening.
According to the latest data, from 2009, in the National College Health Assessment (NCHA) data reported by the American College Health Association, 64.9 percent of Marquette students reported being sexually active within the last 12 months, a statistic below the 2011 national average of 70.8 percent.
Marquette students are also less likely to use contraceptives. Nationally in 2011, about 56.8 percent of college students reported using a method of contraception the last time they had intercourse, while only 50 percent of Marquette students reported doing the same in 2009.
Additionally, four percent of Marquette students reported being diagnosed or treated by a professional for an STD or STI within the last 12 months. Nationally, about 5.1 percent of college students reported the same.
Amy Melichar, coordinator of health education and promotion, said she does not know why Marquette students are less likely to be sexually active.
“Marquette students are just like any other college student,” Melichar said.
Due to Marquette’s Catholic affiliation, the university and Student Health Services do not supply or prescribe contraception to students. All Catholic-affiliated medical institutions comply with Catholic bishops’ ethical and religious directives for Catholic health care services. The Catholic Church considers it morally wrong to prevent conception by any artificial means, including the use of condoms, IUDs, birth control pills and sterilization.
A study conducted by the reproductive health institute, Guttmacher, found that nationally 98 percent of sexually active Catholic women use or have used birth control other than church approved natural family planning. According to NCHA data, about one percent of Marquette students, reported experiencing an unintentional pregnancy themselves or unintentionally getting someone else pregnant within the last 12 months, while in 2011 nationally 1.8 percent of college students experienced the same.
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Essential Package of Sexual and Reproductive Health Services
The goal of this guidance document is to provide a framework for developing an essential sexual and reproductive health (SRH) package. It focuses on two priority areas: 1) integrating family planning into maternal and newborn care services, and 2) integrating services for preventing and managing sexually transmitted infections/reproductive tract infections into primary healthcare services.
This guidance document comprises three sections. The Introduction explains and justifies why the development and implementation of an essential SRH package should be planned and framed within the World Health Organization’s six Building Blocks of Health Systems.
The second section presents the “How To” steps and checklist tools for planning, implementing and scaling up, including specific examples for the two priority areas indicated above.
The third section provides the evidence-base supporting the recommendations and action-points proposed in each tool. This evidence-base includes key findings and summary recommendations from a literature review (in matrix format) and a bibliography of the references included in the literature review.