Sex education

Keeping girls in school

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New – by Mireille Kanyange
In an effort to stem a wave of pregnancy-related dropouts among female pupils, Burundi’s education leaders introduced a programme of sex education patterned on the Burundian tradition of fathers explaining sex to their teenaged sons and paternal aunts to teenaged girls.
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