Limited long-term effects of school based sexual health education

An intensive sexual health education programme in schools had only a small effect on reported sexual behaviors among African adolescents and no effect on the prevalence of HIV and genital herpes (HSV2) 9 years after the start of the intervention. This was despite evidence of some long-term effects on sexual and reproductive health knowledge. These new long term findings are published in this week's PLoS Medicine and raise questions about the effectiveness of school-based sexual health education.

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