sex ed

SET - Sex-Ed Text

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aids, Children and Youth, Family and Parenting, Health and Medicine, hiv, sex ed, sex education, sexual education, sms, sms campaign, sms infolines, sms information

operates in:
Philippines

contact:
http://www.freewebs.com/sexedtext/

SET (Sex-Ed Text) is the fast, easy, anonymous way to get answers to everything you wanted to know about sex, but never asked.

References / Past Projects

SET is sposored by Child Family Services Philippines with human resources help from Peace Corps Philippines.

Learning About Living

file under:
aids, Children and Youth, Health and Medicine, hiv, sex ed, sms infolines

operates in:
Nigeria

contact:
http://www.learningaboutliving.com

From the MobileActive blog:

Learning About Living is a project by One World UK, Nigerian NGOs, the MTN Foundation, and the Nigerian Department of Education using computers and mobile phones to teach Nigerian teenagers about sexuality and HIV/AIDS prevention.

References / Past Projects

From LearningAboutLiving.com

Learning about Living, the electronic version of FLHE, is based on the Nigerian Family Life and HIV/AIDS Education (FLHE) curriculum. The program is managed by One World UK and is developed by Butterfly Works, in close collaboration with Action Health Incorporated, NERDC, Federal Ministry of Education, Federal Ministry of Health, Education as a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) and Girls’ Power Initiative (GPI); with input from young people, school teachers and youth workers in Nigeria.

FLHE Curriculum was developed by the NERDC as the National Agency for Curriculum development in the education sector in Nigeria in collaboration with the Universal Basic Education, Federal Ministry of Education and Action Health Incorporated.

SexInfo

file under:
Family and Parenting, Health and Medicine, sex ed, sms information

operates in:
United States

contact:
http://www.sextextsf.org/

SexInfo provides teens with access to sexual education information via SMS.

References / Past Projects

According to the website, Sex Info is an:

Innovative response to the increasing gonorrhea and chlamydia rates among African-American young people, aged 18-25, in San Francisco.
Based on a successful program in London operated by the Brook Advisory Centres
Created to give info and advice to San Francisco youth about STDs, HIV, birth control, sexual health services, and more.
Designed by health educators at I.S.I.S., Inc. with funding from the San Francisco Department of Public Health, STD Prevention and Control, and programmed by Hip Cricket.

Let's Talk About Sex, Baby: Sexual Health Info via SMS

July 22, 2007 | KatrinVerclas

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mobile active, mobile phones, mobileactive, ms, sex ed, sexual education, sms campaign

Sexual education is entering the mobile age. In Singapore, famous "Dr Love" offer answers to sex-related questions to the predominatly Muslim population via mobile phone. Half-way around the world, SexInfo doles out sexual health info to teens in 160 characters on the Unites States West Coast, and similar services operate in London and in Australia.

In Singapore, according to the Age:

Indonesians are invited to send a text message with any sex-related question to a panel of volunteer local doctors who will either send them a message back or use their question to help compile information on a website.

The brains behind the idea, Wei Siang Yu, who is nicknamed "Dr. Love" for his flamboyant methods of teaching Singaporeans about sex, told a press briefing his scheme would turn conventional sex education on its head.

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