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On Tuesday in Vancouver, the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada kicked off its annual clinical meeting and National Aboriginal Day by announcing a new website devoted to aboriginal sexual health.“All cultures have their own take on reproductive health, having children, family life. Each culture has its own sort of special importance and ceremony around it, and so this will provide a place where non-aboriginals but also aboriginals can learn more about cultural practices,” said Dr. Sandra de la Ronde, co-chair of the society’s aboriginal health initiatives committee.
The homepage of the website, http://www.aboriginalsexualhealth.ca, features a medicine wheel, a symbol of interconnectedness and the cycle of life. The site targets rural as well as urban aboriginals.
“There are many rural and remote aboriginal communities that don’t have ready access to health care personnel that are there in their communities, but they’ll still be able to access this information via the Internet, because it’s becoming a more important tool to reach the rural and remote populations,” said Dr. Don Wilson, committee chair and a member of the Heiltsuk Nation from northern British Columbia.
Actor Adam Beach, who grew up on the Dog Creek First Nations reserve at Lake Manitoba, is featured in videos uploaded to the site. In them, the TV and film star talks about the importance of sexual health and education.
Canada has three main aboriginal groups: Inuit, Métis, and First Nations. “We’ve tried to take some representative examples from some communities and from some well-known aboriginal people to convey the necessary information in these domains,” noted Wilson.
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