by APFLI | May 5, 2014 | Parent Resources, Responses - Advocacy / Dating / Instruction & Teaching Abstinence
According to the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, nearly 3 in 10 girls will become pregnant before the age of 20. In 2012, 305,388 teens (ages 15-19) gave birth. About 18% of women obtaining abortions are teenagers (i.e. about 200,000)...
by APFLI | Sep 1, 2003 | Abstinence - Archive
“Those who complain that ABC is simplistic or reductionistic suggest that we ought to be doing everything to prevent AIDS. A, B, C, D (for Drugs, or De-stigmatizing AIDS), E (for Equal opportunity)…all the way to Z (for Zero misbehavior?). I have noticed...
by APFLI | Sep 10, 2002 | Abstinence - Archive
Thousands of Zulu girls gathered outside the palace of their king as part of an ancient wife-choosing ceremony, and were urged to stay virgins in order to protect themselves from AIDS. King Goodwill Zwelithini has used the occasion to address his subjects on...
by APFLI | May 27, 2002 | Abstinence - Archive
In 1986, not long after his guerrilla force seized power in Uganda, Museveni sent 60 top officers from his bush army to Cuba for training. Several months later Fidel Castro approached Museveni with a staggering bit of news: Medical exams in Cuba had revealed that 18...
by APFLI | Jan 1, 2002 | Abstinence - Archive
True Love Waits-Kenya will hold the first Pan-African Family Life IntÂ’l conference June 5-8, with prominent abstinence speakers from the USA, Canada, and other African countries to focus on issues relating to AIDS/STDs, links to family stability and economic...
