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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.

Published
7 hours ago
From
Children & Young People Now
Young people
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.

Published
7 hours ago
From
Pink News
Young people
COLORADO: Abstinence Added to Sex-ed Legislation by State Senators: House Needs To Reconsider the Bill

The Colorado Senate sent House Bill 13-1081, a bill designed to update standards for sex education in Colorado schools, back to the state House of Representatives for additional consideration, after adding requirements that sex education programs emphasize abstinence.

Published
13 hours ago
From
CDC National Prevention Information Network
HIV prevention policy
US porn filmmaker sued over condom rule

AN AIDS support group has announced legal action against a US porn film company for allegedly failing to enforce a new Los Angeles law requiring actors to wear condoms while on set.

Published
20 March 2013
From
Herald Sun
UK health services
Jeremy Hunt accused of 'grossly unfair' allocation of public health funding

London's wealthy boroughs have been given more money than poorer areas to tackle smoking and obesity

Published
19 March 2013
From
The Guardian
HIV prevention policy
Lukewarm reaction to government’s sexual health framework for England

Just two weeks before local authorities take over the commissioning of sexual health services – and twelve years since a sexual health strategy was last published –

Published
19 March 2013
By
Roger Pebody
Women
U.N. body agrees on women's rights policy, skirting sexual politics

A U.N. policy-making body agreed upon a declaration Friday urging an end to violence against women and girls despite concerns from conservative Muslim countries and the Vatican about references to women's sexual and reproductive rights.

Published
17 March 2013
From
Reuters
HIV prevention policy
England: Sexual health improvement framework published

‘A Framework for Sexual Health Improvement in England’ sets out the government’s ambitions for improving sexual health. These are designed to be used by local organisations when they are looking at how best to provide sexual health services in their area.

Published
15 March 2013
From
Department of Health
Clinical trials
Testing HIV Prevention Tools: Other Ways Up the Alley

We need to design prevention trials that ask, “Is this test product better than nothing?” rather than, “Is this test product better than the best available prevention combination we have?”

Published
15 March 2013
From
Poz
Injecting drug use
HIV high on the agenda at the fifty-sixth session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs

At the fifty-sixth session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, which is running from 11-15 March, drug use and HIV will be addressed through a number of channels, including a draft resolution calling for the intensification of efforts to reduce HIV to attain the targets of the 2011 Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS.

Published
13 March 2013
From
UNAIDS
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