Improving sexual health literacy is essential to strengthening sex education program. A good health education program can help girls to delay sexual debut while helping sexually active individuals enjoy sex with lower risk partners and understand the protection available to them for safe sex. A person who understands sex safe best practices can reduce his/her risk for HIV, HPV, and other STIs. It can also prevent unwanted pregnancies and maternal mortality for women of child-bearing ages.
Here are some of the benefits of improving sexual and reproductive health literacy:
- Empowering Communities by helping groups that would not have as much access to information when it comes to gender inequality issues and overall power relations in communities.
- Help girls, boys stay and complete grade school education
- Improve economic opportunities by reducing gender gaps in education and the workforce
- Reduce intergenerational poverty
How you can help
With your help, organizations like Nurx can help improve sexual health literacy. Please take one or all of the quizzes belows to help with research efforts to improve sex education in America and worldwide.