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1892
The National Education Association promotes sexuality education as a necessary part of a national education curriculum. -
1916: First birth control clinic
Margaret Sanger opens the first birth control clinic in Brooklyn, New York, providing family planning education, counseling, and imported diaphragms. She is arrested and jailed on obscenity charges. Sex Education by Maurice Bigelow is the first major publication on sexuality education and public schools. It stays in print for over 30 years. -
1988: AIDS is a public health issue
Dr. C. E. Koop, Surgeon General sent a report on HIV/AIDs to 107 million households in the USA signaling that AIDs was a public health issue, not a moral issue. -
2010: Personal Responsibility Education Program
Congress funds the Personal Responsibility Education Program, which provides $75 million annually for evidence-based, medically accurate, age-appropriate programs to educate adolescents about both abstinence and contraception in order to prevent unintended teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including HIV/AIDS. -
2010: Personal Responsibility Education Program
Congress funds the Personal Responsibility Education Program, which provides $75 million annually for evidence-based, medically accurate, age-appropriate programs to educate adolescents about both abstinence and contraception in order to prevent unintended teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including HIV/AIDS.