Effective Sexual Health education for youth.

There are as many as 850,000 cases of teen pregnancies occurring annually, and people under 25 years of age experience about 9.1 million sexually transmitted infections (STIs). In US, 70 percent of females and 62 percent of males at the age of 18 have initiated vaginal sex. Compete or comprehensive sex education is efficient at helping young people take healthy decisions about sex and adopt healthy sexual behaviors. No abstinence-only-until-marriage program has helped teens postpone the start of sex or protect themselves against STIs. All the adolescents should have a fundamental human for precise accurate and comprehensive sexual health information.

Comprehensive sex education is operational and does not promote sexual risks

Highly effective sex education and HIV prevention programs affect various behaviors and accomplish positive health outcomes. Behavioral outcomes involve delay in the initiation of sex and decrease in the frequency of sex, decrease in the number of new partners, and the occurrence of unprotected sex, and rise in the use of condoms and contraception among sexually active people. Long-term effects include lower risk of STI and teen pregnancy rates.

Highly effective sex education or HIV prevention education program dictates educating youth about the benefits of condoms and contraception.

Assessment of comprehensive sex education and HIV/ STI prevention programs show that they do not escalate rates of sexual initiation, does not lower the age at which youth initiate sex, and do not increase the frequency of sex or the number of sex partners among sexually active young people.

Abstinence-only programs are unsafe, unsuccessful, and erroneous.

The Society for Adolescent Medicine lately professed that abstinence-only programs loom fundamental human rights of health, information, and life.

As per the researchers of Columbia University, virginity pledge programs rise pledge-takers’ risk for STIs and pregnancy. About 88% pledge-takers started sex before marriage although some delayed sex for a short period. There were similar rates of STIs noted among pledge-takers and non-pledgers in spite of the fact that pledge-takers initiated sex later. Pledge-takers were less likely to go for STI testing and less expected to use contraception during sexual intercourse.

• These Abstinence-only programs convey:
•  False information about the efficacy of contraceptives and risks of abortion
•  Religious beliefs and stereotypes about boys and girls as scientific facts
•  Medical and scientific errors as fact. 

People’s take

Various American medical academies and societies, indorse comprehensive sex education, including education about both abstinence and also contraception and condoms.

Also it was noted in a study that most American adults indorsed sex education which includes information about both abstinence and also contraception and condoms.

 Effective sex education program should:

•  Offer age and culturally suitable sexual health information in a safe environment for participants
•  Are developed in cooperation with members of the target community, especially young people
• Assist youth to clarify their individual, family, and community values
• Help teens and youth in communication, rebuttal, and intercession
• Provide medically precise information about both asceticism and also contraception like condoms
• Have clear goals for preventing HIV, other STIs, and/or teen pregnancy
•  Emphasize on specific health behaviors allied to the goals, with clear messages about these behaviors
• Talk about psychosocial risk and protective factors with activities to change each besieged risk and to promote each protecting factor
• Respect community standards and respond to community wants
• Depend on partaking teaching methods, applied by trained educators and using all the activities as designed.