Sex Education Gets Party Treatment in West Africa
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NOE, Ivory Coast  - A day after the rest of the  world marked World Aids Day on December 1, the Love Life  Caravan blasted its way into the remote border outpost of Noe  between Ivory Coast and Ghana.
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Inside the corps of doctors trying to stem the tide of HIV among the continent's youngest patients
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IBADAN, Nigeria -- Crude paintings of women and rows of dimly lit bedrooms make clear the purpose of a shabby building just off a main road in this sprawling city. But for the next year, this brothel will have another function as well: testing a drug that could help stop HIV infections before they begin.
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He was speaking at a conference about sexual health &amp;#151; a meeting convened in part to help reduce the alarming number of rapes in Kenya. But the priest wasn&#039;t crusading. He was trying to entertain.
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NEW YORK  - Sex education in school may encourage teenagers to put off having sexual intercourse, the results of a U.S. government study suggests.
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TV programmes and teenage magazines can help schools promote sex education, a study says.
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All schools should be required to teach their pupils about sex and relationships, a government watchdog says.
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Participants at a day&#39;s seminar organized by the Gender Studies and Human Rights Documentation Centre have blamed the high numbers of women living with HIV/AIDS on gender inequities and the lack of adequate legislations on women&#39;s rights.
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Presentation by Mary M. Kanya, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Swaziland to the United States of America, at the Fifth Annual African Women&#39;s and Children&#39;s Health Symposium: The Feminization of HIV/Aids on Thursday, November 11, 2004, at the University of
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KAKUMA, Kenya -- They had learned how to buy bus tokens and clip coupons. Gotten hands-on training for lighting a gas stove and flushing a toilet. Taken a pop quiz on women's rights.
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As millions of  revelers across Brazil prepare for Carnival festivities, the  country's health ministry began on Sunday its yearly safe-sex  campaign and the distribution of free condoms.
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In a small town of Yunnan Province, a group of drug users were attentively listening to a class teaching them how to prevent themselves from contracting HIV/AIDS.
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We know many of our youth are having sex and will have sex in the future. To teach abstinence without including education on the need for a condom and how to use a condom will lead to more HIV and STD infections.
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Recent research reveals how boys and girls react differently to having their first sexual experience.
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Sexually transmitted diseases including HIV infections are on the rise among Singaporean teenagers as a result of promiscuity and disregard for safe-sex practices.
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The number of girls in school and women in parliaments has risen, and their overall access to contraception has improved in the past decade.
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THE HAGUE, Jul 5 (IPS) - The use of contraceptives in poor countries needs  to be actively promoted, the Dutch minister for development  assistance has said.