Tien Giang: Launching a communication campaign on gender imbalance at birth

(Dan Sinh) - On October 12, at Tien Giang Children's House, Tien Giang Department of Health held a Rally to launch a communication campaign on gender imbalance at birth.

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With the theme "Promoting gender equality, contributing to reducing gender imbalance at birth", the rally aims to achieve the goal of human rights to eliminate gender inequality, ensuring the dignity and human rights of each individual, women and children.

At the ceremony, Mr. Nguyen Thanh Sang, Head of the Department of Population and Family Planning of Tien Giang province, stated the causes, consequences and solutions to the problem of gender inequality at birth.

Accordingly, the loss of gender equality at birth leads to the following consequences: excess of males and lack of females; breakdown of traditional family structures; increased gender inequality;… The main causes are: rapid decline in birth rates, preference for sons, availability of technology to determine fetal sex, and easy access to abortion services.

Supporting causes: Persistently low birth rate, small families; many local occupations require male labor. Direct causes: Illegal fetal sex diagnosis, especially ultrasound diagnosis of fetal sex; abortion for gender reasons.

To promote gender equality, it is necessary to strengthen communication work to change the viewpoint of male preference and female contempt; strengthen management, inspection and control work to promptly detect and prevent violations of fetal sex selection, and have strong enough sanctions to handle violations according to the provisions of the law... This is an opportunity to prevent changes in the community's awareness and attitudes about son preference and discrimination against women and girls.

Participate in the parade on the streets to promote gender equality.

The goal of this parade is to open up cooperation opportunities for further activities between relevant agencies to jointly address the gender imbalance at birth from a gender perspective in Tien Giang province.

After the rally, youth union members of Tien Giang Medical College participated in a parade on the streets of My Tho City to strengthen propaganda work.

It is known that the sex ratio at birth in Tien Giang in the first 9 months of the year is 108 boys/100 girls. The national ratio is 119 boys/100 girls.

It is predicted that by 2050 there will be a surplus of about 2.3 to 4.3 million young men compared to young women.

XUAN UYEN

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