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Young people and sex/HIV education: the debate continues
1National Centre for HIV Social Research (Macquarie U. Unit), Macquarie University, North Ryde N.S.W., Australia.
Promotion & Education
|June 1, 1994
Abstract:
The legal age of consent for heterosexual sex is 16 years. Large numbers of young people at school are sexually active. Indicators, such as sexually transmitted diseases, show that in spite of education programmes a large proportion of sexually active young people are practising unsafe sex. Access to anonymous sources of condoms such as vending machines would encourage and enable safe sex practices amongst youth.