Action in Inuit communities : Sexual health symposium report 2006

Report Sexual Health Symposium Iqaluit, Nunavut February 21-23, 2006 Acknowledgements This Sexual Health Symposium is part of Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada’s national strategy to mobilize communities to understand the important factors that affect the sexual health of families and communities and to provide the materials and forum for communities to make healthy choices regarding their sexual h [...] The Symposium involved three days of intensive sharing, brainstorming and learning from one another and represented the first step in a process to encourage more discussion and community action to address sexual health across Nunavut and the rest of the Canadian Arctic. [...] Purpose The purpose of the Symposium was to bring together a group of community leaders from the three regions of Nunavut to discuss the need for communities to take action to address sexual health and to share ideas and learn more about how to address sexual health with the current capacity and resources that exist in their communities. [...] Objectives The objectives of the Sexual Health Symposium were: 1) To provide an opportunity for cross regional sharing about how to address sexual health; 2) To increase understanding of the complexities of sexual health; 3) To provide feed back/ input to the Government of Nunavut’s preliminary Sexually Transmitted Infections Strategy; 4) To develop concrete suggestions to get people in communitie [...] Members of the Sexual Health Network who attended the Symposium were grateful for the opportunity to broaden their network in Iqaluit and to meet with Elders and CHRs from the other regions of Nunavut, Inuvialuit, Nunatsiavut, as well as people working in the South.