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C-card Scheme To Encourage Safe Sex Education By: Alex Taylor
Boys as young as twelve are set to be issued with special credit cards which will allow them to obtain free condoms in areas where young men are believed to hang out. Condoms will be distributed in areas where young men congregate, such as at football grounds, in barber’s shops and in scout huts. The cards will be ‘stamped’ after the boy has taken part in a safe sex lesson and boys who do opt into the scheme will not have to give their names or answer any questions about their sex lives.
The scheme is designed to encourage young men to take responsibility for protection when having sex; this currently usually falls to the woman or girl. Sexual health charity Brooke advisory service has warned the government that sex education has been too focused on girls and believes that more needs to be done to educate young men.
The scheme, named C-Card, is part of a strategy being drawn up by Brooke and is designed to encourage boys to learn about safe sex. They have been advising the Department for Children, Schools and Families as to the best way forward in reducing numbers of teen pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections in the U.K.
Boys who attend extra safe-sex lessons, where they will be told about sexually transmitted infections and the importance of going regularly for things such as chlamydia testing, will have their cards stamped. Organisers hope that the stamps will come to be seen as status symbols. The scheme has already been tried out in various regions around the U.K, such as in Lewisham, where teen pregnancies fell by 12.3% in the last year.
The move comes after statistics were released showing there has been a large rise in the number of STIs being diagnosed amongst the under-16s. Over the past four years, 27% more juveniles have been diagnosed with the most common STI Chlamydia, while there was also an increase in young people being recorded as having contracted gonorrhoea or genital warts.
Government ministers say that the increase has been caused by a rise in the number of teens making use of Chlamydia screening services. Chlamydia screening became a government priority in 2003, with the creation of the Chlamydia Screening Progam. Strategies to encourage chlamydia testing have included edgy advertising campaigns and better, easier access to chlamydia testing kits, which have been made accessible in pubs, clubs and local pharmacies.
There has been some criticism of the scheme, with some saying that it encourages children to have sex earlier. One group, Comment on Reproductive Ethics, said that it would just be “facilitating and encouraging sexuality without any deeper understanding of the emotional side of relationships”.
However a spokesperson from the DCFS said that they government was trying to encourage teenagers to wait to have sex, while ensuring that those who did not had access to condoms and were at least staying safe.
They said, “The Government's teenage pregnancy strategy is focused on encouraging young people to delay early sex but to practice safe sex as and when they do become sexually active. All young people must have a session on safe sex with a trained professional before they are given condoms. Research has shown that young men are more likely to use condoms if they have easier access to them at places like youth centres and Further Education colleges."
This Article written by Alex Taylor. Who has written many Article on Chlamydia Testing and Chlamydia Screening. He always recommends you visit http://www.thesticlinic.com/
The scheme is designed to encourage young men to take responsibility for protection when having sex; this currently usually falls to the woman or girl. Sexual health charity Brooke advisory service has warned the government that sex education has been too focused on girls and believes that more needs to be done to educate young men.
The scheme, named C-Card, is part of a strategy being drawn up by Brooke and is designed to encourage boys to learn about safe sex. They have been advising the Department for Children, Schools and Families as to the best way forward in reducing numbers of teen pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections in the U.K.
Boys who attend extra safe-sex lessons, where they will be told about sexually transmitted infections and the importance of going regularly for things such as chlamydia testing, will have their cards stamped. Organisers hope that the stamps will come to be seen as status symbols. The scheme has already been tried out in various regions around the U.K, such as in Lewisham, where teen pregnancies fell by 12.3% in the last year.
The move comes after statistics were released showing there has been a large rise in the number of STIs being diagnosed amongst the under-16s. Over the past four years, 27% more juveniles have been diagnosed with the most common STI Chlamydia, while there was also an increase in young people being recorded as having contracted gonorrhoea or genital warts.
Government ministers say that the increase has been caused by a rise in the number of teens making use of Chlamydia screening services. Chlamydia screening became a government priority in 2003, with the creation of the Chlamydia Screening Progam. Strategies to encourage chlamydia testing have included edgy advertising campaigns and better, easier access to chlamydia testing kits, which have been made accessible in pubs, clubs and local pharmacies.
There has been some criticism of the scheme, with some saying that it encourages children to have sex earlier. One group, Comment on Reproductive Ethics, said that it would just be “facilitating and encouraging sexuality without any deeper understanding of the emotional side of relationships”.
However a spokesperson from the DCFS said that they government was trying to encourage teenagers to wait to have sex, while ensuring that those who did not had access to condoms and were at least staying safe.
They said, “The Government's teenage pregnancy strategy is focused on encouraging young people to delay early sex but to practice safe sex as and when they do become sexually active. All young people must have a session on safe sex with a trained professional before they are given condoms. Research has shown that young men are more likely to use condoms if they have easier access to them at places like youth centres and Further Education colleges."
This Article written by Alex Taylor. Who has written many Article on Chlamydia Testing and Chlamydia Screening. He always recommends you visit http://www.thesticlinic.com/
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