Jonathan Kirkpatrick / Filter MagAug 28, 2023
Learning to do HIV peer education in the ’90s, by unlearning what to say: confessions of a former instructor. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
Nadra Nittle / The 19thAug 25, 2023
REAHYA would provide $100 million in funding from 2024 to 2029 for both K-12 schools and higher education institutions to teach comprehensive sex ed. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
Jane Kay / RevealFeb 17, 2018
Last summer, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services cut off $213.6 million in federal funds for about 80 institutions developing scientifically valid programs. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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Jane Kay / RevealOct 18, 2017
Educators and health researchers worry that youth pregnancies could climb again with the Trump administration's stance on prevention and sex ed programs. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )
By Jim HightowerAug 21, 2015
Touted as a necessity but priced like a luxury, many degree programs are mediocre or worse -- predatory loan scams that hustle aspiring students into deep debt and poverty. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Natasha Hakimi Zapata / TruthdigAug 10, 2015
Sexual education is extremely important, and yet a lack of standardization means that schoolchildren all over the country receive very different information, some of which is false and a lot of which includes shaming kids (mainly girls) who have had or want to have sex. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJun 5, 2012
To make inmates in Guantanamo Bay divulge information, guards play "Sesame Street" songs; studies are attempting to show that people can suffer from a clinical addiction to Facebook; meanwhile, the Catholic Church is looking into the Girl Scouts for their ties to organizations that promote safe sex. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 2, 2012
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services lists the Heritage Keepers Abstinence Education, a pro-abstinence program aimed at middle and high schoolers, as one of almost three dozen "evidenced-based" sex education programs that qualify as effective in preventing teenage pregnancy. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigOct 14, 2009
This isn't going to sound all that shocking, but remember that this country is still wrapping its head around evolution: Criminalizing abortion does not reduce the number of abortions; it reduces the number of safe abortions. Contraception, however, does reduce abortions, according to an epic study of 197 countries. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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