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by: Helina
Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at 8:17:00 AM EDT

In our country, most of the students are committed to achieving their goals. They join school and after 7th and 8th grade at the time of their adolescence period, many engage in sexual activity.   In Ethiopia, young women often get pregnant and have to withdraw from school, because they engaged in unprotected sex.  Since youth do not have access to information about prevention of unintended pregnancies, STIs, and HIV/AIDS, they are no longer able to achieve their goals and their commitment to schools ends there. In the meantime, they will contract different sexually transmitted infections. Particularly, students are the most exposed to such problems. In general, they have to secure and need to protect themselves from the following problems:

  1. Unwanted pregnancy
  2. Abortion
  3. Withdrawal from school because of pregnancy
  4. Exposure to HIV/AIDS or any other sexual transmitted disease
  5. Trauma from consequences of unprotected sex
Before youth engage in sexual activity, it’s important that they have already acquired enough knowledge about their reproductive organs, emotions, and concepts of sexuality that provide healthy choices about if/when you engage in sexual activity.  Many times, youth are already engaging in sexual activity before they receive the information and resources to help them stay healthy! 

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Comments
Why do you think it is that students are more exposed to sex related problems/health issues?
# Posted By Mahayana | 5/20/09 03:54 PM | Report | Reply
Great post! Comprehensive sex education is not only needed in the US, it is needed everywhere (except for maybe the Vatican)...
# Posted By  vanessaaishacoleman | 5/22/09 12:23 AM | Report | Reply