Starting next year, the Victorian government plans to fund 400 pelvic pain and menstrual health education sessions for students across the state, with regional and rural schools prioritised for delivery.
Regional and rural students are more likely to miss school or work because of pelvic pain than their metro counterparts, and are less likely to have access to specialist clinics.
Pelvic pain is an umbrella term for a variety of conditions with different causes and management plans. "We can get that information to them sooner, but then it becomes a really nuanced topic about age appropriateness, what the school wants, what parents want, and what is actually best practice."Almost half of all Australian women experience pelvic pain, which amounts to more than 6 million people.
"The program also aims to destigmatise and remove the shame associated with periods so that nobody suffers in silence," the spokesperson said. "So many women with endometriosis recognise ... their symptoms began when they started their periods in that time at school. Budget energy relief to backfire on welfare recipients, who are set to miss out on the full $300 benefit‘We need to be really concerned’: How fitness influencers are creating ‘a false sense of the world’ for young boysNicola Coughlan is finally the lead in Bridgerton and she's never been more ready
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