Health education: strategy for sexual and reproductive care for women in custody

The National Plan of Health in the Brazilian Prison System has as the main purpose to contribute to the control and/or reduction of the more often aggravations to the health of the prison population, by means of several strategic actions, among these, actions that target the sexual and reproductive health quality. In this perspective, the nurse, a productive professional of care in all the life circumstances, must act in this care area, respecting, in this way, the life, the dignity and the woman rights in detention. According to it was declared, this study aimed to perform educative actions giving focus on the prevention of Transmitted Sexual Diseases (STD)/Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), the safe sexual practices, the family planning, the domestic violence and uterine and breast cancer prevention. The educative actions were developed in the Female Penal Colony: Recife, Pernambuco - Brazil. The achieve of the proposal target provided opportunity to the women in detention, to understand how to have the sexual and reproductive health, giving to them autonomy to a healthy life, based on the rights stated in the Brazilian Laws. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.