Is A ‘nuanced’ Approach To Teen Sex Education Possible
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Whether they see their virginity as a gift or a stigma to get rid of the first chance they get, today’s teens are desperate to learn about pleasure in “healthy” relationships, which means traditional sex education that beats the safe sex drum is no longer speaking to them, if it ever did.
It is this group [...]
Na For Increase In Health, Education Budget, Subsidy In Oil, Electricity
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The Lower House of the Parliament Sunday continued debate on budget 2008-09 where the parliamentarians proposed further increase in health and education budget and recommended subsidy in oil and electricity charges for agricultural sector development.
He said that five percent increase in Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) 20 percent increase in salaries of government servants are [...]
Mini Health Fair Finds Major Diabetes Problem Among Marshallese
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The health education department for the Jones Center for Families, collaborated with area providers to bring the side-event to the annual event in Springdale. Over the Memorial Holiday weekend, hundreds of Marshall Islanders, residing in Arkansas and across the U.S., came to commemorate the 29th anniversary of their homeland’s constitution and welcome Republic of the [...]
Senator Kennedy Spokesman On Declining Job Numbers
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Anthony Coley, spokesman for Senator Edward M. Kennedy, released the following statement concerning today’s jobs numbers, which showed a dramatic jump in the unemployment rate from 5.0 to 5.5 percent and an increase by 861,000 in the number of unemployed Americans (to a total of 8.5 million).
Kennedy, Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions [...]
New Allied Health Education Center Ribbon Cutting Opening Set For Today
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The ribbon cutting opening for LSU at Alexandria’s new Allied Health Education Center, 807 Jackson St., will begin at 11 a.m. today, announced Dr. Tom Armstrong, interim chancellor and vice chancellor for academic and student affairs, in a news release.
The public is invited, and refreshments will be served. The open house will continue until 1 [...]
Kentucky Homeplace Honored
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The National Rural Health Association (NRHA) has presented Kentucky Homeplace, University of Kentucky Center for Excellence in Rural Health, with its 2008 Outstanding Program Award.
The initiative has linked more than 74,000 rural Kentucky residents with medical, social and environmental services, provided more than 1.5 million services and accessed nearly $106 million worth of medications and [...]
Fewer High School Students Smoking Cigarettes And Marijuana
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Fewer high school students were smoking cigarettes and marijuana in 2007 than in 2001, with one in four smoking pot and one in five puffing on cigarettes, a youth survey released Wednesday shows.
Teens’ use of tobacco in their lifetime fell to 46 percent from 62 percent and marijuana use dropped to 41 percent, down from [...]
United Way Has New Goals For Education
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The president of the United Way of America announced plans this week to steer money over the next 10 years toward programs related to education, income and health care.
That’s already being done at the United Way of Central Oklahoma, the local organization’s president said Friday from Washington, where he was meeting with elected officials from [...]
High Risk Sexual Behaviour Under Scrutiny
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Scrutinize is a new series of short, animated commercials called animerts based on the realities of life in South Africa that place young people at risk of HIV infection.
The series, aimed at 18 to 32-year-olds, uses animated township characters to communicate with its target group. These characters are placed in everyday situations to illustrate the [...]
Seeking The Key To Employment For Ex Cons
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NEWARK — Over the past two years, Peter Santos has hired 40 ex-convicts to help him build and renovate apartments here; 36 did not last, many of them doing unacceptably sloppy work or simply disappearing after a few weeks — Health Education or a few days — on the job.
One worker, Ronald O’Reilly, 41, [...]
