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Sex Education in Other Countries
Sex Education For Sale? President Bush gave cash incentives for African sex programs promoting abstinence.
Need for Sex Education: (Results from a 2007 report by the UK Youth Parliament) • 43% of respondents reported not having been taught anything about relationships • 55% of the 12-15 year olds and 57% of the 16-17 year old females reported not having been taught how to use a condom; • Just over half of respondents had not been told where their local sexual health service was located. http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001832/183281e.pdf
Lesbians are subject to curative rape in Kenya and are dismissed from their jobs for their sexuality. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex activists are shunned by many in the area for religious reasons. http://allafrica.com/stories/200911110809.html
* Nearly 40% of Nigerian children are sexually active before the age of 15. *97% of Nigerian women have not been tested for HIV. http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=87013
What is the Internet teaching the world?
INPPARES is an organization in Peru working to educate people on sexual issues, with the main goal of improving their overall sexuality, not just a reduction in disease and teen pregnancy. APROFAM is an organization in Guatamala that offers education and contraception to the Mayans and other isolated populations in Guatamala's rainforests. www.freeschoicesaveslives.org
