The Ethics of Short-term Reproductive Health Education: A perspective from Arusha, Tanzania

1. Presented by: David Dudok Olga Wrezel Principal Investigator: Dr. Michael John Co-investigator: Jessica Wylie The Ethics of Short-term Reproductive Health Education – A Perspective from Arusha, Tanzania

4. Is our teaching effective, furthermore ethical?

6. Methods Draft survey, ethics submission June 2006 Ethics approval, Swahili translation in TZ July 2006 Teaching sessions + survey admin August 2006 Data analysis Manuscript preparation ongoing

9. Q1: How much did you know about the subject before the presentation? Q3: How comfortable did you feel talking about the topic before the presentation? Q5: How much did you understand about the topic before the presentation? Q6: How comfortable did you feel asking the presenters questions? Q7: How useful were the demonstrations used? Q9: How much do you know about the subject after the presentation?

10. Knowledge Improvement On knowledge of reproductive health before and after the presentations, 307 ( 70.6% ) reported improvement.

14. Self-rated Accessibility of Condoms Accessibility in sexually-active individuals = 73.1% Accessibility in abstinent individuals = 60.6% all individuals sexually active individuals sexually active - always use condom sexually active - don't always use condom difficult 40 15 7 8 not difficult 300 57 23 34 no answer 139 6 3 2 Total 479 78 33 44

19. Questions? Thank you