SCORA

Vision

A world where every individual is empowered to exercise their sexual and reproductive health rights equally, free from stigma and discrimination.

Mission

To equip members with the tools, knowledge, and confidence to advocate for sexual and reproductive health and rights in culturally sensitive ways.Through comprehensive training, project exchanges, policy drafting, and external collaborations, SCORA empowers young changemakers to create meaningful local, national, and global impact.

1. Reproductive Health

Overview:

According to the WHO, reproductive health is a basic right and healthcare necessity. It represents complete physical, mental, and social well being in all matters relating to the reproductive system, rather than just the absence of disease.

What it Includes:

Antenatal, childbirth, and postnatal care; access to safe abortion; prevention and treatment of reproductive cancers; sexual health counseling; and Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE).

Core Pillars:

• Maternal Health: Addressing maternal mortality, mental health (postpartum depression), safe pregnancy, menstrual hygiene, and conditions like PCOS and endometriosis.
• Comprehensive Sexual Education (CSE): Teaching rights based, age appropriate topics including relationships, consent, bodily changes, puberty, and safe sex.
• Adolescents' Health: Focusing on reproductive health for young people, puberty shifts, body image, and positive parenting.

2. HIV/AIDS and Other STIs

Overview:

This area focuses on expanding up to date scientific knowledge and tackling the heavy social stigma associated with HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs). While local incidence rates are rising, stigma remains the primary barrier preventing individuals from seeking testing, counseling, and treatment.

Core Pillars:

• Scientific & Clinical Awareness: Educating on transmission routes, prevention, clinical features, and management.
• Stigma Eradication & Patient Care: Promoting safe, stigma free healthcare spaces. Educating medical students and healthcare workers on counseling and modern treatment benchmarks like U=U (Undetectable = Untransmissible).
• Intersectionality: Recognizing that a patient's experience with HIV is uniquely shaped by overlapping identity factors (e.g., financial status, displacement, gender) to avoid "one size fits all" approaches.

1. Anti FGM (Female Genital Mutilation)

Overview:

Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) is a severe human rights violation targeted for elimination under UN Sustainable Development Goal 5.3. The project works actively against the practice, with a specific focus on combating the rising trend of "medicalization" where FGM is wrongly performed by healthcare professionals.

Core Pillars:

• Multifaceted Advocacy: Educating the public and medical students on the severe medical, legal, psychological, and religious arguments against FGM.
• Survivor Care: Spreading awareness regarding medical care, psychological support, and specialized multidisciplinary survivor networks (e.g., Restore Foundation).
• Institutional Impact: Collaborating to integrate anti FGM ideologies directly into medical school curricula to stop future healthcare providers from participating in the practice.

2. Family Planning

Overview:

Family planning empowers individuals and couples to choose their desired number of children as well as the timing and spacing of pregnancies. Access to voluntary family planning is treated as a fundamental human right that advances gender equality, reduces poverty, and improves maternal/child health outcomes.

Core Pillars:

• Counseling & Education: Facilitating open, informed, and autonomous choices, addressing common myths, and minimizing fears surrounding contraceptive side effects.
• Access to Services: Informing communities about public and private sector care pathways, including primary healthcare units, government clinics, and mobile clinics.
• Contraceptive Awareness: Providing comprehensive information on safe options, from long term methods (IUDs, implants) to barrier methods, emergency contraception, and male involvement.