By Ijeoma Olorunfemi
The Federation of Muslim Women Association in Nigeria (FOMWAN) says
Dr Yalwa Usman, the Deputy Chairperson of FOMWAN’s National Health Committee, said this on Wednesday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) in Abuja.
“Whatever we say about comprehensive sexuality education should be thought according to beliefs of communities because people perceive sex education differently.
“We have to take into cognisance the religiuos aspect of it.
“We need to be culture and religion sensitive while dealing with sexual education,” Usman said.
She said that sexuality education should be considered according to community’s diversity for acceptability.
Usman said that the association was improving the socio-economic status and reproductive health of Muslim women.
The deputy chairperson said that the association was teaching its women reproductive health according to the provisions of Islamic.
“We are trying to go with the teachings of our religion in order to differentiate religion from culture.
“We teach according to the content of our religion and filter what culture has put into it.
“We also go according to the Islamic perspective of reproductive health which was prepared by Islamic scholars.
“Reproductive health is about well-being of the people, and we are following that holistically in line with the teaching of Islam,” Usman said.(NAN)
