Accessibility to birth control despite shyness

During this year Mexico has occupied the first place in teenage pregnancy among  The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries. Which means that  even with a wide variety of sexual and reproductive education efforts such as distribution of condoms for free at schools and health centers, this is not enough. Sexuality still remains as a tabu for youth and shyness, they could have the right information about contraceptive methosd, but  shyness is one of the most common excuses for not getting one of them.

During the summer of 2022  I was attending a summer school at the University of Zürich and I was surprised when I realized that young people there have no excuses to get pregnant without planification. Neither shyness could be considered as an excuse. By this way, the Swiss government avoid the shyness while asking for contraceptives or pregnancy tests at the drugstore by providing them through a dispensing machine that also have some groceries.  And of course this machines are strategically located around the focus population such as university and highschool students. 

Finally I would like to highlight that this idea is not properly mine, however I think that if we put it into practice in strategical points, the results will reflect a significative reduction of teenage pregnancy rate.

It will provide contraceptives to young people without make them feeling ashamed or shy obout asking for it. Young people needs a discreed safe place where they can provide thmeselves their sexuality without been criticized.

Since we are part of one of the biggest universities in Latinoamerica (UNAM) We have the possibility to put it into practice there and also collect statistics in collaboration with some internal organism at the university.

It does not exist in Latinoamerica and the machines already exist, it would be a new direction and strategy to reach the goals of sexual and reproduction education campaings.

We are expecting to cover all Ciudad Universitaria and other faculties of the University

It will provide contraceptives at any moment without feeling ashamed of shy.

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It is just an idea, it comes to me last year.

We would like to add some men to the team later