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Center for Population Options, Washington, DC. – 1990
This report explores policy initiatives, priorities, and plans of action recommended to policymakers with respect to a commitment to education for youth on prevention of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Young people with AIDS/HIV infection, can be offered compassion, hope, and support.…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adolescents, Communicable Diseases, Community Planning
Francis, Susan – Our Children, 1998
One-quarter of the 3 million new cases of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) each year occur in teenagers. Teens are at high risk because of biological, age, and behavioral factors. Education is the best weapon against STDs. As their children's first sex educators, parents must make every effort to promote STD education at home and school. (SM)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Parent Responsibility, Secondary Education, Secondary School Students
Peer reviewedMales, Mike – Journal of School Health, 1993
Neither sexuality education nor abstinence programs have reduced adolescent pregnancy or sexually transmitted disease. The article presents recent data, explains why prevention does not work, and describes crucial factors that school and community prevention programs fail to incorporate (adult-teen intercourse, teen-teen intercourse, adult…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adolescents, Early Parenthood, Health Promotion
Gans, Janet E.; And Others – 1990
Many adolescent health problems are linked with educational performance, family relationships, poverty, and the general lifestyles that adolescents experience in their communities. Although serious, chronic medical and psychiatric disorders affect about 6 percent of the adolescent population, many more adolescents are at risk for death and for…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Health, Health Promotion, Health Services
Peer reviewedRoe, Richard L. – Social Education, 1987
Reviews recent court decisions regarding whether individuals with contagious diseases may be barred from public schools. Devotes specific attention to the issue of whether certain communicable diseases such as tuberculosis and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) can be classified as handicaps and thereby qualify a person for protection…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Communicable Diseases, Educational Discrimination, Federal Legislation
Peer reviewedGoodson, Patricia; Edmundson, Elizabeth – Journal of School Health, 1994
Presents the results of a content evaluation of the abstinence-based sexuality education curriculum, "Sex Respect," focusing on the curriculum's message and presentation. Results indicate Sex Respect omits basic content and includes misinformation, especially in the areas of human sexual response and reproductive health, and needs revision.…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Health Behavior, Health Education, Health Materials
