WOMEN AND GIRLS appear to be losing out to LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) issues, said the woman who heads the entity which looks after reproductive health.
But issues which affect women were just as important and should be placed on the front burner, said executive director of the Barbados Family Planning Association (BFPA), Juliette Bynoe-Sutherland.
She has called for a multisectoral response from not only Government but also civil society.
Bynoe-Sutherland, who was speaking on the sidelines of a day-long Women’s Health Medical Conference at the 3Ws Oval at the Cave Hill Campus of the University of the West Indies, told the DAILY NATION that the BFPA was promoting the whole issue of comprehensive sexuality education in an attempt to halt the increase in sex for favours being practised by teenage girls with older men, as well as cases of child sex abuse. (HLE)
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