The Abstinence Clearinghouse Blog

[Abstinence Clearinghouse E-Mail Update, 10/17/05]
More than 100 students and teachers recently gathered in Kumbo, Cameroon for a one day seminar on how to prevent HIV/AIDS through abstinence education. George Tanah Ndosak, supervisor of the CBC Health Board Youth Network, facilitated the event which trained teachers to clearly communicate the value of abstinence until [...]

[Abstinence Clearinghouse E-Mail Update, 10/17/05]
Virgins will attend college for free if a Ugandan legislator has his way. This latest encouragement for young women to remain abstinent until marriage is drawing support from many who believe that education is the best chance girls have to dig out from poverty and disease and to build stable, [...]

[Affiliate Report, 10/17/05]
Dallas affiliate, Just Say YES, will be highlighted at a luncheon with guest, Dr. Alveda King, niece of the late Martin Luther King. The fundraiser is aimed at increasing awareness for beneficiaries who “empower women to make life affirming choices.” Just Say YES, serves over 40,000 students through high energy multimedia [...]

[Affiliate Report, 10/17/05]
The Greene County Pregnancy Care Center is one of its kind in Linton,
IN. Under a new director, the center focuses on abstinence education and
teaches a 3 day program in every Greene County school except one. The
effective and fun program leads to comfortable open discussion and several
students making abstinence until marriage pledges.
(Source: [...]

[Affiliate Report, 10/17/05]
Youth Empowerment Services, Inc. of North Charleston, SC maintains a busy fall schedule that reaches more than 1,600 youth with the abstinence until marriage message each month. The group is actively involved in the African American community and reaches out through youth who are part of their empowerment group.
On October [...]

[Affiliate Report, 10/21/05]
Youth Empowerment Services, Inc. of North Charleston, SC maintains a busy fall schedule that reaches more than 1,600 youth with the abstinence until marriage message each month. The group is actively involved in the African American community and reaches out through youth who are part of their empowerment group.
On October [...]

The American Family Association is urging its members to demand that American Girl cease its support for Girls Inc. which the group believes promotes activities and organizations that are anti-family, including contraceptive-based sex education programs. The protest is in response to a special American Girl campaign in which the company donates the proceeds of [...]

October 14, 2005
Dear Friends in the Abstinence Movement,
If you are low on cash or waiting for grant money to come in for school assemblies, we are here to help you out. Stop waiting for that slow-moving bureaucracy to get you those funds and move forward with planning a dynamic year in your schools. [...]

Planned Parenthood to address abstinence more
By Cindy V. Culp Tribune-Herald staff writer
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
When it comes to sex education, semantics can make all the difference. Or at least, that’s what the local Planned Parenthood hopes to communicate at a seminar Thursday.
Called Making Sense of Abstinence, the focus of the conference is to give [...]

Dr. Ruth Helps Prove Contraception Education Doesn’t Work
MSNBC.com and Zogby International, with help from Dr. Ruth Westheimer, released survey results this week showing that despite the efforts of contraception educators, roughly 61 percent of adults neglect to ask their sexual partners about their STD status before engaging in sexual activity. With more than 56,000 [...]