The Need for Sexuality Education in Pakistan

Sexuality education is an extremely controversial topic in countries like Pakistan where any dialogue regarding sexual practices is considered taboo. Yet, it is a country with a high prevalence of abortions and sexually transmitted illnesses (STIs). Current knowledge about such issues in the general...

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Autores principales: Shaikh, Asim, Ochani, Rohan Kumar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2018
Materias:
HIV/AIDS
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6063376/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30062067
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2693
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description Sexuality education is an extremely controversial topic in countries like Pakistan where any dialogue regarding sexual practices is considered taboo. Yet, it is a country with a high prevalence of abortions and sexually transmitted illnesses (STIs). Current knowledge about such issues in the general public is also very poor. Hence, it is extremely important to discuss the advantages of having sexual education programs in Pakistan and analyze the current impact of an absence of such programs and public awareness campaigns.
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spelling pubmed-60633762018-07-30 The Need for Sexuality Education in Pakistan Shaikh, Asim Ochani, Rohan Kumar Cureus HIV/AIDS Sexuality education is an extremely controversial topic in countries like Pakistan where any dialogue regarding sexual practices is considered taboo. Yet, it is a country with a high prevalence of abortions and sexually transmitted illnesses (STIs). Current knowledge about such issues in the general public is also very poor. Hence, it is extremely important to discuss the advantages of having sexual education programs in Pakistan and analyze the current impact of an absence of such programs and public awareness campaigns. Cureus 2018-05-28 /pmc/articles/PMC6063376/ /pubmed/30062067 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2693 Text en Copyright © 2018, Shaikh et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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