%0 Journal Article
%T Initiatives. Mauritius: a right to know. MFPA launches sex education in primary schools.
%J Afr Link
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%D Oct 1995
%M 12349751
暂无%X The Mauritius Family Planning Association (MFPA) launches sex education in selected primary schools in the country.  This move has received support from parents and teachers after a strong advocacy campaign and MFPA had collected data and evidence to back up its campaign.  Through focus group discussions with students, MFPA was able to obtain useful data for the development of an appropriate curriculum, in collaboration with a Task Force, parents, and teachers.  The content of the curriculum included The Family, Population Education, Human Growth and Development, Adolescent Problems, and Health and Health and Education.  To effectively implement this initiative, volunteer schoolteachers underwent training sessions to arm them with the necessary knowledge on what and how to teach young people.  A participative approach was preferred for the training.  So far, there have been 8 schools involved in the pilot project: 3 urban and 5 rural schools, with each school having 1 working session per semester. In the future, the Sexual Education Curriculum will be expanded to all primary schools and the adolescents in these schools will have acquired their right to know.