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School based sex education classes have little effect: Study | Researchers have revealed that school based sex education classes have had little effect on reported sexual
behaviours among African adolescents and no effect on the prevalence of HIV and genital herpes 9 years after the start of the intervention. Researchers from the
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), the Tanzanian National Institute
for Medical Research's Mwanza Research Centre (NIMR Mwanza) and AMREF Tanzania
studied the effect of one such study in Rural Tanzania that was designed to provide
the students with the knowledge and skills needed to delay sexual debut and to
reduce sexual risk taking. A survey in 2002 showed that the interventions had
a substantial impact on SRH (sexual and reproductive health) knowledge, reported
attitudes, and on some reported sexual risk behaviours, but no consistent significant
impacts on pregnancies or sexually transmitted infections. They also found that
the prevalence of HIV was similar in the young people who had received the interventions
and in those who had not. However, the study did show that lesser number of men
had multiple sexual partners and an increase in the use of a condom among women.
On the basis of their long-term follow up study, the authors conclude that such
youth interventions may be more effective if they are integrated "within intensive,
community-wide risk reduction programmes." The findings are published in this
week's PLoS Medicine. |
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