Specialists from Cuba and other nations will attend the Sixth Cuban Congress on Education, Orientation and Sexual Therapy, which will take place in Havana on January 23 to 26.

The Convention Center of Havana will be the venue of the event. In parallel, other events will take place in the venue. Some include: the Second Symposium Trans-identities, Gender and Culture, a methodological workshop by the Chair of Sexology and Sexuality Education, the Second Symposium of Clinical Sexology and the first Consensus of Chronic Sexual Diseases and Dysfunctions.

Under the slogan "Sexual education in the processes of social transformation" some topics will be related to the family and sexuality education focused on mentally handicapped students.

As announced by the organizing committee, the meeting is sponsored by the National Sexual Education Center and the Multidisciplinary Society for the Study of Sexuality, and it is aimed at promoting interchanges and systematization of the best experiences in this field.

During this week, prior to the forum, other issues have been discussed. These include:  education on sexuality for children, teenagers, youngsters and adults with disabilities or not, who need special education; sexual pleasure: a right not much dealt with, and the dilemmas of desire in clinical work with couples, among others.

A post-congress course on the prevention of violence and care for women by Nadine Gasman, ONU Woman consultant is also included.

A translation by: Silke Paez Carr

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