Indian minister laments country&#39;s lack of sex education
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India&#39;s health minister on Wednesday lamented opposition from several states to a government plan to introduce sex education from next year, a report said.
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Some secondary schools provide no sex education or health advice, a report says.
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A potential water shortage and the spread of HIV infections pose some of the biggest risks to India's economic future, the country's finance minister said Sunday as business executives from around the world discussed the opportunities and challenges facing its booming economy.
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India will seek the help of private consultants to determine how many of its billion-plus population are HIV-positive after allegations its official estimate of 5.1 million is too low.
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A British colonial era law in India  that criminalizes homosexuality is "not acceptable" and  scrapping it is "fundamental" to the fight against AIDS, the  country's top official leading efforts to end the disease said.
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Fewer high school students were having sex and more were using condoms in 2005, according to the latest government report on the well-being of the nationâs children.
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Low education standards have led to a vast shortage of qualified workers.
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Asians are having far less sex than their European counterparts, according to a global survey which also revealed trends towards younger and riskier sex.
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India does not want waif-like young   women sashaying down the catwalk and acting as role models for   thousands of girls who are starving themselves to get svelte   figures, the Indian health minister said.
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Young people should be informed about sexual health services and have access to them, ministers say.
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Seven thousand fewer girls are born  in India each day than the global average would suggest,  largely because female fetuses are aborted after sex  determination tests, the United Nations Children's Fund  (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.
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The leader of India's Hindu-nationalist opposition on Tuesday voiced concern over the growth rate among minority Muslims and Christians, urging them to practice family planning to preserve the nation's "unity and integrity."
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Nearly half of India's children are malnourished, putting the country in the same league as some of the world's poorest countries &#151; even though fewer infants are dying and more pregnant Indian women are seeing doctors, according to government data released Friday.
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An internal report shows the government has missed many of its education and children's targets since 1998.
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India is sitting on top of a &quot;grave, ticking HIV/AIDS timebomb,&quot; an international funding agency warned, labelling official estimates of 5.1 million infections as &quot;conservative.&quot;
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India, struggling to promote greater condom use among its population, is looking to hire its own &quot;condom man&quot; to follow the example of a former Thai cabinet minister who successfully pushed for safer sex, the Times of India reported.
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Officials in India's Andhra Pradesh state say an HIV test will soon be compulsory before marriage.