National guidelines for sexuality education in Nigeria

Several factors aided the success of this initiative including: · Establishment of a broad based task force for Sexuality Education in Nigeria by Action Health Incorporated · Broad based support for sexuality education by over 200 organisation including National NGOs, International NGOs and Governmental Agencies · Media partnership to promote the need for sexuality education · The increasing HIV/AIDS prevalence rate in Nigeria, especially with young people accounting for over fifty percent of new infections · Young people accounting for majority of the complications of unsafe abortion in Nigeria · Partnership between SIECUS and AHI with funding support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. This initiative has led to the accomplishment of: 1. A Nationally approved curriculum which is being used in schools at all levels in Nigeria, called the National Family Life HIV/AIDS Education (FLHE) Curriculum 2. The implementation of the FLHE curriculum by most states of the Federation with funding support from governments and donors