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Francis, Dennis A.; DePalma, Renée – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2014
The stakes are high for sex education in South Africa: it has been estimated that 8.7% of young people live with HIV. Within primarily US and UK contexts, there has been much debate over the relative merits of abstinence-only and comprehensive sexual education programmes. These perspectives have largely been presented as irreconcilable, but…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sexuality, Sex Education, Prevention
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Mason-Jones, Amanda J.; Flisher, Alan J.; Mathews, Catherine – Health Education Research, 2011
Characteristics of learners who become peer educators are rarely explored despite the potential relevance to the success of peer education programmes. Fifteen high schools selected to implement peer education HIV prevention programmes in South Africa were recruited. A total of 2339 Grade 10 learners were surveyed and comparisons were made between…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Prevention, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Foreign Countries