Sex education classes that focus on encouraging children to remain abstinent can persuade a significant proportion to delay sexual activity, researchers reported ...

NEW YORK — With the exit of the Bush administration, critics of abstinence-only sex education will be making an aggressive push to cut off federal funding for what they consider an ineffective, ...

Proponents of sex education classes that focus on encouraging teenagers to remain virgins until marriage are hoping that the rescue plan for the nation's health-care system will also save their ...

Hillary Clinton would make a major change to President Bush's AIDS program if she were in the White House, she said this week in announcing her global strategy to combat AIDS. The New York senator ...

A new study finds an abstinence-only intervention for pre-teens was more successful in delaying the onset of sexual activity than a health-promotion control intervention. In the study to evaluate the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Abstinence-only sex education can work -- if it's based on established strategies for helping young people change their attitudes about other types of risky behavior like ...

As the Prince George’s County Health Department slices a $25,000 abstinence-education program, a new nonprofit has formed to more than fill the void, backed by $600,000 in federal grants. The county ...

A year after its inception, a survey of a teen abstinence program on the north side of town indicates children are listening. Only time will tell if the program, designed to reduce teen pregnancy and ...