Investing in sex education

SEX EDUCATION

I AWAITED with bated breath the unveiling of Budget 2018, hoping to hear major allocations being invested for our nation’s most precious assets, our young people’s health. Unfortunately, there wasn’t much to shout about.

The Executive Summary of a Lancet Commission into Adolescence Health 2016 states: “Investments in adolescent health and wellbeing bring a triple dividend of benefits now, into future adult life, and for the next generation of children. Tackling preventable and treatable adolescent health problems including infectious diseases, under-nutrition, HIV, sexual and reproductive health, injury, and violence will bring huge social and economic benefits.”