Sunday, September 21st, 2008
A special issue of Sexuality Research and Social Policy, the official journal of the National Sexuality Resource Center (NSRC), examined a broad range of problem associated with abstinence only programmes.
Having reviewed 56 studies assessing the impact of abstinence programs and that of comprehensive programmes on adolescents’ sexual behaviour (pdf) Douglas ...
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Saturday, August 30th, 2008
Abstinence and faithfulness are often promoted as the only and best forms of protection against HIV infection. If the theory is true, in the real world abstinence and faithfulness have shown an impressive rate of failure. In a couple it takes two for it to work, and when single it ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Ivory Coast Campaign
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A few days ago Elizabeth Pisani commented on her website on how the Cambodian government caved in to US pressure. US pro-abstinence ideologues were meddling with a recognised efficacious HIV prevention intervention in exchange for economic advantages.
This was an interesting post and it fitted with ...
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
In The Invisible Cure: Africa, The West and the Fight against AIDS, Helen Epstein suggests that "What may have helped spare the West a heterosexual AIDS epidemic on the scale of Africa's is the romantic belief that there is a”perfect partner” , a “soul mate”, to be cherished “for richer ...
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