ABSTRACT
The AIDS epidemic poses numerous challenges for sexuality education. More schools and community organizations are calling for sexuality education than ever before. Although it is true that all young people need education about AIDS, certain groups of teenagers must be targets for special education efforts. Young people need to understand that there is nothing about being gay, or Black, or Hispanic, that makes people biologically susceptible to AIDS. Teenagers lack basic knowledge regarding transmission of and protection against HIV. AIDS prevention programs for teenagers should have four primary goals: to reduce the panic and misinformation about the disease and its transmission and to increase understanding of risk behaviors, to help teenagers delay the initiation of sexual intercourse, to ensure that teenagers who are having any type of intercourse use condoms consistently and effectively, and to reduce experimentation with drugs and prevent I-V drug use.
