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Originally Posted by NCB
I hear ya'. It's nieve of me to think that an abstinence only curric. would be wholly effective. However, trying to blend abstine. only education with learning to put condoms on cucumbers is obviously a contradiction.
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I don't see it that way - abstinence is one form of birth control, and it's the most effective and the only 100% certain way of avoiding pregnancy and STDs. Now, if abstinence isn't an option for you, here are some other ways of keeping yourself safe.
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With Africa, it is a sexual problem. True, a lot of children are being born with HIV, but the primary transmission cause is still sex. It's time for Africans to either learn some self control or practice safer sex. What they're doing now just ain't working, despite all the money that's being poured into the region
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This is a huge and complex problem and I'm not sure it's really relevant to this discussion. It's hard for us to fathom in this country where we absolutely equate sex with HIV, but there are still huge populations in Africa where that connection doesn't exist, either due to lack of education or due to some pretty "quaint" beliefs about how diseases are transmitted.
In Uganda, though, they are having pretty good success with a COMPREHENSIVE sex ed program - the ABC method. Abstain, but if you can't, Be faithful, and use Condoms. They've shown a significant delay in the first age of intercourse, and a significant reduction in HIV transmission. The difference between Uganda and other countries is that they are relatively stable, the government is backing the effort and providing condoms, and efforts are centralized, standardized, and used throughout the country.
So apparently Ugandans have no problem wrapping their heads around the "contradiction" of comprehensive sex ed.