Sexual and Reproductive Health
Click on the subject you’d like to learn more about:
- HIV/AIDS
- Sexual Health
- Teen Pregnancy Prevention (click here)
HIV/AIDS, sexually-transmitted diseases and unintended pregnancy are major public health concerns, with rates in the U.S. higher than any other industrialized country. The NEA Health Information Network has programs and publications to help school personnel address these issues in their roles as educators and as employees.
NEA HIN provides members with publications that promote coordinated school health, effective models of HIV prevention education for the classroom, and accurate information on sexual health issues.
- What Works? – School based HIV, STD, and Pregnancy Prevention Education
- Q&A About Male Latex Condoms – Preventing Sexual Transmission of HIV
- The Face of HIV/AIDS – People with HIV/AIDS as Educators
- Responding to HIV and AIDS (English) and en Espanol .
- Pointer’s Dish – Newsletter about family communication, health and sexuality
- The Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic Timeline– interactive web-based timeline designed to serve as an ongoing reference tool for many of the political,scientific, cultural, and community events that have occurred over the history of the epidemic.
International Advocacy
The impact of AIDS is a global issue. Education International (EI), the largest global federation of teachers’ unions, has produced a brochure, Teachers Against AIDS. It highlights the involvement of teachers and teacher unions in HIV/AIDS prevention. For more information visit, www.ei-ie.org/aids.htm. Also, to learn more about NEA’s global committment to improve education for all children, visit www.nea.org/international.HIN also helps members address HIV and hepatitis prevention in the workplace with training and publications.
Sexual health encompasses much more than basic anatomy. It touches on many different facets of one’s life and is continually influenced by a convergence of factors, including parents, peers, religion, media, friends, partners, etc. School employees and the overall school environment are key influences in the sexual health of young people. NEA HIN recognizes this relationship and has created the following resources to clarify and help strengthen the connection between sexual health and education:
- Sexual Health Fact Sheet (PDF file, 89K) – Answers why school personnel should be concerned about sexual health. Includes statistics.
- Sexual Health: By the Numbers (PDF file)- provides the latest sexual health statistics from the best nationally recognized sources.
- STDs 101 (PDF file, 27K) – the basics about the most common sexually transmitted diseases, inclding symptoms, treatment, side effects and current trends.
The Sexual Health Conversation Project
Supported by a grant from the Ford Foundation and coordinated through the Academy for Educational Development’s Center for Community-Based Health Strategies, NEA HIN recently undertook a project aimed at increasing the knowledge and level of conversation about sexual health among NEA members. Working with the NEA Student Program, NEA HIN conducted a focus group and on-line survey to assess the opinions and needs among student members on this issue. Click here for a Summary of the Student NEA Sexual Health Focus Group responses. NEA HIN staff also conducted workshops on sexual health at both the Student NEA “Connections” Conference and the Student Leadership Conference this past year.