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Search Page. Resources Close. Recommendations and Conclusions The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists the College makes the following recommendations and conclusions: Comprehensive sexuality education should be medically accurate, evidence-based, and age-appropriate, and should include the benefits of delaying sexual intercourse, while also providing information about normal reproductive development, contraception including long-acting reversible contraception methods to prevent unintended pregnancies, as well as barrier protection to prevent sexually transmitted infections STIs.
Box 1. What Constitutes Comprehensive Sexuality Education The following are components of comprehensive sexuality education: Comprehensive sexuality education should be medically accurate, evidence-based, and age-appropriate, and should include the benefits of delaying sexual intercourse, while also providing information about normal reproductive development, contraception including long-acting reversible contraception methods to prevent unintended pregnancies, as well as barrier protection to prevent sexually transmitted infections.
Encourage consideration of implants and intrauterine devices for all appropriate candidates. Current Quality of Sexuality Education Current sexuality education programs vary widely in the accuracy of content, emphasis, and effectiveness. Comprehensive sexuality education is an essential part of a good quality education that helps prepare young people for a fulfilling life in a changing world. It improves sexual and reproductive health outcomes, promotes safe and gender equitable learning environments, and improves education access and achievement.
Home Education for All blog Current: Why children need comprehensive sexuality education in a changing world. Why children need comprehensive sexuality education in a changing world. A good education should go beyond the traditional academic focus; it must also support young people to develop the knowledge, skills, and ethical values they need to make conscious and healthy choices about relationships, sex and reproduction. Students in a technical education program supported by the World Bank in Antioquia, Colombia.
What a well-rounded education should include Yet, when we talk about a good education, we must also go beyond the traditional academic focus. Based on the evidence, we know that comprehensive sexuality education must be an essential part of a good education that helps prepare young people to make well-informed decisions in a world where HIV and AIDS, sexually transmitted infections STIs , unintended pregnancies, and gender-based violence still pose serious risks to their well-being.
Subscribe to our blog alerts. You must have JavaScript enabled to use this form. The research behind comprehensive sexuality education UNESCO commissioned two evidence-based reviews around comprehensive sexuality education, in and , and the facts are now clear. Engaging all stakeholders At UNESCO, our comprehensive sexuality education programming is a key pillar of efforts to strengthen the delivery of quality education for all.
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Planning ahead in the Marshall Islands mitigates interruptions in learning. GPE is supporting the government of the Marshall Islands to ensure the continuity of learning for all children before, during and after health-related emergencies. Comprehensive sexuality education leads to better sexual health outcomes for young people—from lower rates of STIs, to fewer unintended pregnancies, to increased use of condoms and other contraceptives.
We know this. We write about this. We talk about this. A lot. But we need to get better at highlighting the fact that sex education is also a powerful vehicle for social change.
While sex education is a necessary sexual health tool, it can and should be so much more than that. Think about it: At the root of each of the issues above among the many more that exist is a need to teach people about them in an appropriate, unbiased, and accurate way—presenting young people, early on, with the evidence, not the ideologies.
The good news is: we already have a way to do this. We just need to prioritize it. High-quality CSE programs include age, developmentally, and culturally appropriate, science-based, and medically accurate information on a broad set of topics related to sexuality, including human development, relationships, personal skills, sexual behaviors, including abstinence, sexual health, and society and culture.
CSE programs provide students with opportunities for learning information, exploring their attitudes and values, and developing skills. With CSE, we can provide sex education that takes into account the actual, lived experiences of the students in the classroom.
It is sexual violence prevention. It tackles racial, sexualized stereotypes that put people of color at greater risk of experiencing violence.
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