This role may not directly connect with women, but impacts the quality of services, as well as their accessibility and results.ģ. Politician, religious leader, service provider.
Sexual partner, husband, father, gatekeeper of sexual and reproductive health of their families.Ģ. The team analysed available information on the issue and found that men are usually placed into one of three social categories:ġ. But in the area of SRH, the opposite seems to be true,” says Janssen. “On the whole, when people talk about health, it is about men: research is with men, policy is about men, and women’s needs are not given priority. Therefore, with colleagues from Share-Net, created a project to engage men and boys in the conversation.
Paul Janssen believes that at the moment work on gender issues are most often related to women and girls, and very little is said about the SRH needs of men and boys.
Paul Janssen, one of the authors, told aidsmap about the problems men face with SRH and what triggered the creation of this project. The Dutch Share-Net network has published a document on sexual and reproductive health (SRH) of men.
