Sex education highly needed in school BY WANAJALA .B. DANSON The whole idea of sex education in our school and how comprehensive sex education should be are controversial subjects. People in our society would rather just tell kids to abstain, but does that really solve our problem nowadays? This whole idea harkens back to the […]
India lags behind in sex education
Indians lead fulfiling sex lives but get their first formal sex education at a little over 15 years of age as compared to west where lessons on the birds and the bees start from 12 says a new global study. Though Indians know how to protect themselves from sexually transmitted infections and HIV/AIDS,awareness on how […]
Sex Education in India should be meaningful and intelligible
Though the idea of introducing sex education in India has been accepted in principle, still India has a long way to go, since some reservation prevail among states in implementing the sex education programme in the present format for fear of public outcry. After all the purpose of introducing sex education in India is to […]
Do Indian schools need sex education?
Maharashtra’s MLAs recent uproar against the state government’s plans to introduce sex education in schools has been put on hold . It is unfortunate in a country where sexual intelligence is abysmal.The reason cited is polluting young minds which is untrue in current Indian envrironment.The surveys and doctors dealing with youth says that there is an […]
Women teach sex education to girls in Kishanganj madarssas
With the number of HIV-infected-cases on a steep rise in the subcontinent, madarssas in Kishanganj district of Bihar has taken it upon itself to spread much-needed awareness on the issue . The madarssas have allowed to conduct sex education for adolescent girls, probably a first for any madarssa in the country. It’s a bold initiative to […]
Women Take Sex Education to Madarsa
Women’s empowerment is getting a new resonance in an underdeveloped Bihar district. Kishanganj, which didn’t have a district hospital till a few years back, is witnessing a revolution with an NGO teaching reproductive and sexual healthcare to teenage girls in a Madarsa. On International Women’s Day, the tale of attitudinal change through innovation and […]
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