HIV/AIDS
Teaching adolescents about condoms
Published in AIDS Weekly, October 1st, 2007
This finding might appear common sense, but the best way to teach HIV prevention to young people has in fact has been controversial. The “abstinence-only” approach, favored in recent years by US government-sponsored programs, reflects the notion that teaching adolescents anything about safer sex (including condom use) might encourage risky activity. However, recent studies have found that abstinence-only programs have failed to reduce HIV risk.
Do “abstinence-plus” programs, which present safer sex...
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Source: AIDS Weekly (2007-10-01)
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