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Paper short abstract:

This paper has goal to present the perceptions of the indigenous women and girls about planning family from SUS

Paper long abstract:

In 1996, a bill regulating family planning was approved by the National Congress and sanctioned by the Presidency of the Republic. The Law establishes that the managing instances of the Unified Health System (SUS), at all levels, are obliged to guarantee to the woman, the man, or the couple, throughout its network of services, assistance to conception and contraception as part of the other actions that make up comprehensive health care.

SUS and their branch of the Special Indigenous Secretariat-SESAI also apply the programs to the indigenous population without respect for cultural diversity and how they conceive the family and community. However, it is mentioned on the SESA I.

This work will analyze the narratives of young indigenous women about early pregnancy and family planning and how they dialogue with those programs.

Through an interdisciplinary study aimed at interculturally, the young indigenous women held several workshops with the theme of early pregnancy and the imaginary of the family and what pregnancy is like in their view. These workshops were held at Ação dos Jovens Indígenas, AJI/GAPK, in 2022.