Kenya: Sex Education Lacking, Says Health Official

23 September 2009

Nairobi — The sex education programme in schools might not be succeeding in bringing about change in sexual behaviour among the youth, the director of Public Health has said.

The content of the curriculum is so thin such that the messages designed in the initial stages are not getting through to the youth who are increasingly having sex at tender age, Dr Shanaaz Sharif said Wednesday.

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