Monday, June 21, 2010

School based sex education in Kerala

The Education Department of Kerala has drawn lines to teach adolescent children about the basics of sex in school curriculum. They would have collected teaching notes from celebrities like Thilakan, the thespian turned public orator, convincing people, the technique of having half a dozen children from two women even without any wedlock.

Did the Department ever note the revealing of researchers that school based sex education classes have had little effect on reported sexual behaviour among African adolescents. Researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), and the Tanzanian National Institute for Medical Researches Mwanza Research Centre (NIMR Mwanza) exposed that there was no significant impact on pregnancies or sexually transmitted infections due to school based sex education.

The findings are published in the PLoS Medicine.

JW

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