Choosing Abstinence by Dale Zevin There is an urgent need for young people to have the skills to make wise choices about postponing sexual behavior. At this stage, positive and rewarding friendships are essential -csexual relationships are not. This book encourages ...
Taking Care of Your Genitals
The only special care you need to take of your penis and testicles is washing them with soap and warm water every day or two. Clear away any smegma (a whitish cheesy substance that collects around the glans), especially if ...
Letters – March 1997
Dear Auntie, About a year ago, I had a D&C for the second time. My menstrual period following this came out in a dark brown form and it smelled awfully. It later returned to normal, However, sine some few months ...
GPI Holds Strategy Planning Workshop
A two-day national workshop for youth-serving non-governmental organizations (NGOs) convened by Girls’ Power Initiative (GPI) took place in Calabar from 16th to 19th February 1997. The workshop deliberated on the strategic objectives and actions recommended in the platforms for Acton ...
Love at Valentine
Over three hundred young people attended this year’s Valentine’s Day activity which has now become an annual event at Action Health Incorporated’s Youth Center in Lagos. As usual, the event was celebrated with an entertainment-education package. The package focused on ...
Addis Ababa Forum Focuses on Reproductive Health
INTRODUCTION As young people prepare to take baton from the present generation of adults become the most valuable resources for our countries, the world over. It is already obvious that we occupy more than half of the world’s population. We ...
Women and AIDS in Africa: A Case of Traditional Inequities
by Elizabeth Marquart It’s still pitch dark. Relieved, I hear the first cock’s crow in the village. A choir of cocks complete with each other as half an hour later, the sun rises: at six o’clock in the morning the ...
Not Smart Enough
by Abiodun Adeoye-Bamgbopa Ex-student, Ajao Estate High School, Anthony Village, Lagos. Naomi was born into one of the most respectable families in our area. She grew up to be an intelligent and hardworking pretty girl. She was always punctual to ...
Poems – March 1997
DARE TO BE DIFFERENT Adapted from “Teaching True Abstinence Sex Education” by Pat Socia Keep those zippers zipped up tight And those buttons buttoned just right Clothes and “NO” are the protection, you see So you can be free, yeah-you ...
The Only Way to Be Free
Abstinence is a word many Nigerian youths cannot bear to hear, not to talk of adopting. They do not feel self-fulfilled or complete until they’ve had one sexual relationship or the other. But if you think that every Nigerian youth ...