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Girls’ education and sexual behavior in Africa

Posted September 11th, 2006 by Tara Murray in Health, Sub-Saharan Africa

Girl Power: Girls’ Education, Sexual Behaviour and AIDS in Africa(PDF), a new report from ActionAid, finds that girls with more education are more likely to wait to have sex and more likely to use a condom when they do, and thus are less likely to contract HIV.

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