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Category: Comprehensive Sexual Health

Outcomes of these initiatives included improvements regarding several safe sex practices including, but not limited to, condom use, consent, negotiation and conversation skills with sexual partner(s), and contraceptive use.

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The Positive Action Program https://www.positiveaction.net Initative Description: The Positive Action program which consists of weekly/twice weekly 15 minutes lessons focused on self-concept, positive actions for one’s mind and body, managing oneself responsibly, getting along with others, being honest with oneself and others, improving oneself continuously result in significantly better academic behavior and less substance use, […]

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Initiative Description: The social development curriculum (SDC), which is aimed at managing situations in which high-risk behavior occurs, reduced rates of violent behavior, provoking behavior, school delinquency, drug use, and recent sexual intercourse while increasing the rate of condom use in a sample of inner-city African American boys. Study Results: The school/community intervention (SCI) that […]

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Initiative Description: An HIV/AIDS preventive health education involving nurses alone (IG1) and another involving both nurses and trained parents/ guardians (IG2). IG2 HIV/AIDS preventive health education was delivered in the form of lectures, film show, role-play, and question and answer sessions directed by nurses to students, in addition to an HIV/AIDS preventive seminar to parents/guardians […]

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Get Real Initiative Initiative Description: A 3‐year comprehensive sex education program in delaying vaginal sex for middle school students. It included 9 lessons each in Grades 6, 7, and 8 and provides culturally sensitive and age-appropriate information, focusing on relational skill-building as a means to make healthy choices regarding sexual relationships. Get Real designates parents […]

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Benzies & Batches Initiative Description: four complementary elements: (a) an introductory lesson, (b) an educational peer-performed play followed by a peer-led group discussion, (c) three classroom lessons, each 100–150 min, to teach skills and resilience regarding social and sexual behavior; and (d) a closing lesson. Study Results: At post-test and follow-up, there was a significant […]

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Initiative Description: Students in the intervention group were exposed for a 1-hour-and-45-minute-long in-class peer sexual health intervention. Students in the control schools were exposed to a 1-hour-long in-class peer water purification intervention. Study Results: Increased knowledge about abstinence and condoms. Students in the intervention schools also had a higher personal risk perception of acquiring HIV […]

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| Comprehensive Sexual Health, Pregnancy Prevention

Paquin School Program Initiative Description: a separate school for pregnant students that is fully integrated into the Baltimore City Public School System and follows the regular school calendar, schedule, and curriculum. In addition to educational classes, the School Program provides employment counseling services, parenting education, transportation assistance, childcare services, in-school health clinic services, family planning […]

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Family Life and HIV Education (FLHE) program Initiative Description:  Implementing the Family Life and HIV Education (FLHE) program, plus a community-based program designed to enhance the awareness of AIDS in Nigeria. Study Results: Improved attitude towards rejection of myths & attitudes related to abstinence and use of condoms. Reference: Arnold, R., Maticka-Tyndale E, Tenkorang E, […]

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Safer Choices https://www.etr.org/ebi/programs/safer-choices/ Initiative Description:  a multicomponent, behavioral theory-based HIV, STD, and pregnancy prevention program. Program components included: a school organization component (council involving teachers, students, parents, administrators, and community representatives) a sequential curriculum for 9th- and 10th-grade students, a peer education and school environment component (A Safer Choices peer team or club at every […]

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Initiative Description: Multicomponent sexuality education intervention that integrated a classroom curriculum, parent education workshops and materials, peer advocate program, and sexual health services. Study Results: Students receiving the multicomponent intervention reported greater increases in the use of sexual health services (odds ratio [OR] = 1.73, 95% CI = 1.09–2.75) and the likelihood of carrying a […]

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