Away from abstinence.As the Bush administration continues to push an abstinence-only sex education Abstinence-only sex education is a form of sex education that emphasizes abstinence from sex to the exclusion of all other types of sexual and reproductive health education, particularly regarding birth control and safe sex. agenda that largely isolates gays, 40,000 new cases of HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. infection are reported annually in the United States, with an increasing number occurring among men who have sex with men Men who have sex with men (MSM) is a term used mostly in the United States to classify men who engage in sex with other men, regardless of whether they self-identify as gay, bisexual, or heterosexual. . To counter what they describe as Bush's failed policy, former U.S. surgeons general David Satcher and Jocelyn Elders announced on November 2 the creation of a new Center of Excellence for Sexual Health at Morehouse School of Medicine Morehouse School of Medicine is a medical school in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Originally part of African-American all-male Morehouse College, it was founded in 1975 during the tenure of college president Hugh M. in Atlanta. Satcher will be head of the center. "There is no evidence abstinence-only programs work," Satcher told The Advocate. "[But] there is evidence to support that when parents don't affirm the sexual orientation of their children, they end up feeling like they're not appreciated or made to feel that something is wrong with them, and that increases the risk of their engaging in risky sexual behaviors." |
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