Sammendrag
Earlier positive experiences of using humour/“edutainment” in adolescent sexual and reproductive health programs has been explored in this component of the NCR-founded and UiB-based research project, “Competing discourses impacting girls’ and women’s rights: Fertility control and safe abortion in Ethiopia, Zambia and Tanzania”. The making and use of altogether five 20-min research-based dramas, involving the participation of youth in north-western Tigray, Ethiopia, has sought to encourage female and male youth to reflect on their roles and responsibilities concerning sexuality and sexual relations in general, and contraceptive use and abortion in particular. These are issues, which might not be so easy to talk about directly. The dramas has made it possible to discuss them based on the characters in the films. Research data has been generated through both the process of making these dramas and from the discussions of the dramas with youth, parents, teachers, health workers and religious leader afterwards. Having both applied and academic and pretentions, this project is framed by current policies in Ethiopia concerning free access to contraceptives, youth-friendly reproductive health services and an expanded range of legal indications for safe abortion. It is the last of these five films, “Love Complications”, where the youth wrote the script entirely by themselves, which will be screened here. I the first 3-4 weeks the Tigrinya version had 500.000 hits on YouTube – reaching Tigrinya-speaking Eritrean and Ethiopian youth all over the world. This presentation will reflect on this art- and action research-inspired way of conducting academic investigation on global health issues.
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