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SEXUAL/REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH EDUCATION (COMPLETE)
See also our Male Responsibility and Pregnancy Prevention sections, among others. If you are already pregnant, or think you might be, and you need help, you might want to start with Crisis Pregnancy Support. This is but the first of our Help With Crisis Pregnancy & Beyond pages.
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Act Now! A Resource Guide for Young Women on HIV/AIDS. (.pdf, Adobe Acrobat file.) Women and children, born and unborn, are put at heightened risk for HIV/AIDS by the same societal injustices that cause problematic pregnancies and abortions. From UNIFEM, the United Nations agency on women, and from Canada-based AWID (Association for Women's Rights in Development).
Advocates for Youth. (Some Spanish & French content.) US-based, but with a global view. Motto: "Rights, Respect, Responsibility." Promotes "comprehensive" as opposed to "abstinence-only" sex ed for youth. This means it is guided by a philosophy that people need to learn the full spectrum of knowledge and then make up their own minds. It includes educational materials on nonmarital sex, family planning methods in addition to abstinence, outercourse (sexual practices besides penis-vagina intercourse), and Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgendered and Questioning sexual orientations. Wealth of information for youth, parents, health professionals, and anyone wanting to shape public policy.
AVERT. International HIV/AIDS charity, based in England and most active in India and Southern Africa. Has abundant sex education pages.
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Disability Resources: Sexuality People with all manner of disabilities crave accurate, useful information about sex because we are sexual beings, who want sex, and do have sex...You know, like most human beings! So here are some leads, including some about sexual/reproductive considerations specific to certain disabilities and health conditions. See also these articles from two feminist-minded, disability-rights activists, the first from Brazil, the second from the US: Rosangela Berman Bieler's The Right to Maternity and Anne Finger's Forbidden Fruit: Why Shouldn't Disabled People Have Sex or Become Parents?
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EngenderHealth. Globally oriented; many online teaching materials on women's health, men's health, family planning, sexuality and gender, maternal health, and HIV/AIDs and other STIs (Sexually Transmitted Infections).
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Fetal Development. Like disability and LGBT issues, this is a vital subject often missing from or glossed over in sex education programs. Photos and text descriptions of life before birth can be found at Embryology, from the Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales (Australia); Fetal Development, from the Westside Pregnancy Resource Center, Santa Monica, California, USA; and the Fetal Development links (English, Spanish) from New York Online Access to Health.
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National Youth Advocacy Coalition (US). "A social justice organization that advocates for and with young people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning (LGBTQ) in an effort to end discrimination against these youth and to ensure their physical and emotional well being." Publishes (.pdf) Youth Connections: The Guide to LGBT Youth Resources and other noteworthy online materials.
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Safer Sex Methods. Regularly reviewed and updated guide from HIV Insite, one of the Internet's most helpful and extensive resources on HIV/AIDS. Another good and maybe more user-friendly resource on safer sex and HIV/AIDS is HIV Prevention & Testing, from The Body: The Complete HIV/AIDS Resource (English, Spanish). Try their How Much Do You Know? Quiz. Please also be aware that the Nonviolent Choice Directory offers safer sex items (as well as family planning products) through this website.
Sexwise Guide. Downloadable .pdf sex education booklet, available in these 22 languages: Albanian, Kazak, Arabic, Romanian, Bulgarian, Polish, Chinese, Portuguese (Brazil, Lusophone Africa), English (Anglophone Africa), Russian, French, Spanish, Greek, KiSwahili, Hausa, Turkish, Hungarian, Uzbek, Indonesian, and Vietnamese.
Collaboration between the BBC World Service and the International Planned Parenthood Federation. Solid on most points, but quite hetero and ableist in its viewpoint, lacks information on fetal development, and describes abortion as a "woman's personal decision" (although it cautions against self-induced abortion in countries where it is illegal). "A woman's personal decision"...as if a pregnancy did not involve both a woman's and a child's bodies and lives, as if the incidence of abortion had never had anything to do with any pressures put on women by masculinist individuals and social institutions...Sigh...However, we include the guide here, with these caveats, because in many languages, sex ed materials are scarce, and withholding the information will directly cause abortions, whereas notifying people about the guide is more likely to prevent than cause abortions.
Soulforce. "The purpose of Soulforce is freedom for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people from religious and political oppression through the practice of relentless nonviolent resistance." Soulforce's nonviolent resistance to bigotry is an education in itself. Of considerable interest: Soulforce has just published a booklet entitled What the Science Says - And Doesn't Say - About Homosexuality. Please order and share yours today!
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United Nations Worldwide Education and Advocacy Efforts: UNAIDS: The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (English; some materials in French, Russian, and Spanish); World Health Organization: Sexual Health and Reproductive Health (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish).
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