04/09/2025
about 🩺🤱🏻
Sexual health is about more than avoiding illness. It means safe and respectful relationships, confidence to make choices, and rights that protect every person. Good sexual health also requires:
✔️ Access to clear, reliable information
✔️ Knowledge of risks and how to stay safe
✔️ Services and care that people can trust
✔️ An environment free from coercion, discrimination, and violence
When these are in place, people can build healthy relationships, enjoy safe experiences, and live with dignity.
But what happens when these are missing? Who makes sexual health real in communities where information, care, or safe spaces are not always guaranteed? Volunteers do.
In Ecuador, Luis Alvarado, a UN Community Volunteer from the Kichwa community, works with to promote teen pregnancy prevention and sexual and reproductive rights.
In Sri Lanka, Hiruni Weerasinghe, a UN Community Volunteer, worked in her community share knowledge on sexual and reproductive health as well as on gender-based violence, linking everyday life with health and rights.
On , we stand for safe, respectful, and informed choices for all.