Comprehensive sex education in schools will prevent HIV and GBV- Angie Motshekga

Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga believes a comprehensive sex education will help combat sexual health challenges and unintended pregnancies and gender-based violence (GBV).

Motshekga was speaking at the UN educational, scientific and cultural organisation (Unesco) on Wednesday.

She said adolescents and young people have a right to sex and reproductive health education.

“To ensure that our adolescents and young people become champions of their lives and responsible citizens empowered to contribute to the development of their world, achieving positive educational outcomes is critical.”

Though there have been challenges, the country has been able to implement sex education and reproductive health services in schools.

A comprehensive sex education curriculum in schools is not the answer to preventing HIV, teenage pregnancies, or gender-based violence (GBV) says professor Mbulungeni Madiba.

Madiba, who’s the dean of education at Stellenbosh University, says a whole-of-society approach is needed to combat early and unintended pregnancies as well as other social ills facing the youth.

However, Madiba argues that the school curriculum alone cannot adequately cover the complexity of sexuality and sexual health in South African communities.

The professor adds that sex education needs to start within the family from a young age.

“The school should just complement what is happening at home but I think where we are now, this is not the case,” he says.

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