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  • Can sex education lead to less sex?

    Educating young people about sex and sexual choices from an early age has been accused of causing promiscuity and premature sexual behaviour, but the evidence is at least...

    From: Preventing HIV

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  • Young people

    Amongst black African people, those under the age of 20 are the least likely to have diagnosed HIV and the least likely to have had unprotected sex...

    From: HIV & UK African communities

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    More and more children who were infected with HIV at birth are growing up and entering their teenage years and adulthood. Some children’s HIV clinics...

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  • Personal, social, health and economic education requires improvement in English schools

    Today, Ofsted is publishing ‘Not yet good enough’, a report which evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education and makes recommendations on how the subject can be taught well in English schools.

    01 May 2013 | OFSTED press release

  • New survey on HIV education: Progression, regression or stagnation?

    There is room for optimism in the overall progress of the global education sector's response to HIV, says a new in-depth study of 39 countries around the world. However, a worrying degree of stagnation in some areas still exists and much more needs to be done if the sector is to fulfil its critical role in helping to intensify HIV prevention.

    01 May 2013 | UNAIDS

  • UNITED STATES: 7 States Trying to Gut Sex Ed and Promote Abstinence

    In 2013, at least seven states have proposed stopping comprehensive sex education in favor of an abstinence-based or anti-abortion approach. The seven states are Arkansas, Kansas, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, and Texas.

    01 May 2013 | CDC National Prevention Information Network

  • Uganda: Govt Demands Students' HIV Status

    Heads of schools are grappling with an unusual instruction, after the government ordered them to declare the HIV status of all their people, including students.

    22 April 2013 | AllAfrica

  • HPV Vaccine Showing Successes in Australia

    The US government’s goal of vaccinating young girls against the human papillomavirus has been disappointing, with less than a third of teenagers having completed a full course of HPV vaccine. But now the United States can look to Australia, which six years into a successful nationwide HPV vaccination campaign has experienced a sharp decline in the number of new cases of genital warts among young men and women.

    19 April 2013 | New York Times

  • Georgia Arnold: Fighting HIV the MTV Way

    Using the global reach and youth appeal of the MTV brand, we're producing creative content to challenge misconceptions about HIV and improve sexual health among young people.

    19 April 2013 | Huffington Post

  • New York: Sex education banned in public school buildings owned by Catholic Church

    A longstanding yet little-known agreement between church and city officials says that students at the dozens of city schools that lease church-owned buildings must head off campus for sex education.

    08 April 2013 | New York Daily News

  • Responding to the Publication of the Government's PSHE Education Review

    Personal, Social Health and Economic (PSHE) education is vital for children and young people. It is as important as reading, writing and arithmetic (and IT) yet it continues to be the 'Cinderella subject' of the school curriculum; neglected and ignored. Last month, the Government announced it would not be making PSHE education statutory in primary or secondary schools. Brook, like many organisations, believes this undermines children's rights, their health and their safety.

    05 April 2013 | Huffington Post

  • UK: Fury erupts over government review of sex education

    The government today rejected calls for national guidelines on PSHE lessons, sparking a furious reaction from campaigners.

    21 March 2013 | Children & Young People Now

  • UK: Government criticised for failing to mention LGBT youngsters in sex education report

    The National AIDS Trust (NAT) says the government’s sex education review “makes no mention of sex education which addresses the needs of LGBT young people.” Published on Thursday, the Department of Education’s review of Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PHSE) Education in England recommends it continues as a non-statutory subject.

    21 March 2013 | Pink News
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