NUPEIS performs activities in women's month

On February 22nd, at the Cabula Academic Unit, the Workshop for the Reception of the Center for Research and Interface Studies in Health (NUPEIS) was held. The program had the participation of the special guest, nurse Aldacy Gonçalves.

"It was a very beautiful workshop filled with a lot of emotion and many fantastic testimonies from the students regarding their growth as members of the group! It was a very gratifying activity", declared Prof. Tânia Bispo, coordinator of NUPEIS who is also in charge of the Ser project woman, being pregnant and prisoner: difficult paths, which develops health education activities with the female prison population of the Lemos de Brito Penitentiary Complex.

Continuing the activities of the research group, on March 8, in commemoration of International Women's Day, the workshop “Unforgettable Women” was held, “which sought to provide the exchange of knowledge between prison women and members of the Group of NUPEIS Research. The workshop was about the meaning of being a woman today and in the prison context”, says Prof. Tânia Bispo.

The group coordinator says that, in the approach to the prison inmates participating in the project, participatory methodologies are preferably used that seek to integrate the participants with the research group. “At first, a dynamic of welcoming the women in prison situation was held, after a discussion about Being a Woman nowadays and in the prison context and, soon after, a snack and the delivery of gifts were offered”, she reports.

According to the teacher, given the speeches of the participants, it was possible to see that being a woman today and in the prison context "is to be a warrior, strong, with multiple roles to be played and the prison context reaffirms once again the strength of women to maintain themselves alive and determined, even in the face of the distance from her family and her previous life”. 

Professor Tânia Bispo points out that the project directly contributes to the strengthening of the improvement in the quality of care for women in prison situations, through the development of interdisciplinary health promotion activities, bearing in mind humanistic practices and behaviors, in line with the Ministry of Health programs and public policies aimed at women in prison.

Being a woman, being pregnant and incarcerated: difficult paths

The research project Being a woman, being pregnant and a prisoner: difficult paths emerged in view of the need to expand spaces that promote articulation between the pillars of the university – Teaching, Research and Extension – with the policies and programs of the Ministry of Health. The project is authored by Prof. Dr. Tânia Bispo, with the participation of the Nursing courses of Bahiana and UNEB and has been developed at the women's penitentiary complex in Salvador, Lemos de Brito, since 2013.  

The initiative aims to carry out health education actions, aiming to prepare pregnant women and women in prison for issues related to the process of pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium, sexual and reproductive health, STD/HIV prevention and gender issues. As a result of this project, numerous course completion papers (TCC) and master's dissertations and doctoral theses from both participating institutions have been developed, as well as the publication of scientific articles and presentation of papers at scientific events in the area. 

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