2023-09-04 18:14:11
Bulletin 123/2023
September 4, 2023
under the World Sexual Health Daythe Mexico City Human Rights Commission (CDHCM) considers it necessary to build public policies on the matter, as well as to face various challenges, including the reintegration of comprehensive sexuality education in the curricula of the schools.
Likewise, the training of public servants so that the gender binary is not taken for granted in the care and provision of the various services offered by the agencies; in addition to the visibility and care of sexuality and sexual health of the elderly.
In this context, it is essential to highlight that sexuality is a fundamental dimension of everyone’s life, it is part of our relationship with ourselves, with other people, as well as in the exercise of all our human rights.
Historically, sexuality has been a field of tensions where human activities are regulated, where rules are dictated on how, when, where, with whom and why sexuality should be exercised, which has impacts on people’s development and in social relationships.
Despite the above, in Mexico City there have been important advances. It was the first entity in the country to decriminalize the Legal Interruption of Pregnancy (ILE) and to recognize the rights of LGBTTTIQA+ populations. In terms of health, the opening of the Condesa Clinics and the Comprehensive Health Unit for trans people, USIPT, stands out.
In addition, sexual rights have been recognized since 2017 in our local Constitution independently of reproductive rights, recognizing the right to sexuality; For this reason, the existence of comprehensive health services is contemplated, with complete, scientific, non-stereotyped, diverse and secular information, respecting the progressive autonomy of Girls, Boys and Adolescents (NNyA).
With regard to health services exclusively, this Organization highlights the need for staff to be trained in the application of the LGBTTTIQA+ protocol; that the Legal Termination of Pregnancy is accessible in more and more public clinics in the City. In the same way, that there is availability of PReP and PiP, in addition to the supply of antiretroviral drugs for people with HIV, among others.
It is noteworthy that health is a fundamental axis for the exercise of sexuality; since 2010, the World Association for Sexual Health (AMSS) established September 4 as World Sexual Health Day, emphasizing that it is essential for the guarantee, exercise and protection of sexual and reproductive rights of all people .
The CDHCM reaffirms that it is imperative to address sexual health in a comprehensive manner, not as something that is the sole responsibility of the Ministry of Health, but rather requires inter-institutional actions that recognize the interdependence of the right to sexuality hand in hand with the right to non-existence. discrimination, to a life free of violence, to education, to information, to the free development of personality and as a fundamental right for the exercise of all human rights, including the right to health.
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