Health News
2005-09-29
Podcast series
will focus on comprehensive sex education
Jackstreet Media
and Aldagon Resources on Tuesday announced a new
on-demand radio series that aims to address ineffective
Jackstreet Media
and Aldagon Resources on Tuesday announced a new
on-demand radio series that aims to address ineffective sex
education programs in schools by providing information
about condom use and contraception to high school and
college students returning to classes this fall. The
series, currently airing on the Internet radio program
“HIV and Me Talk Radio,” available online at
www.hivradio.com,
features interviews with teens and young adults talking
about their sexual education, practices, attitudes,
and experiences with safer and not-so-safe sex.
The program,
created and hosted by Kozby Kritzer, includes a wide
spectrum of guests between the ages of 18 and 27, including
sexually active college students, youths practicing
abstinence, peer-to-peer sex education activists,
and HIV-positive young men and women, as well as
HIV-negative people who date them.
Nearly every
guest in this series sounds the same note—that their
high school sex education programs contained very
little reference to sex itself and virtually no
information about how to have sex safely to avoid
sexually transmitted diseases, says Kritzer. This interview
series serves to highlight how the conservative
viewpoints of educators and administrators have
eliminated safer-sex education in our schools, putting
our young people more at risk of getting HIV and AIDS than
ever before, Kritzer continues.
Recognizing the
increased reach of new technologies among teens and young
adults, this radio series is available on-demand for free at
www.hivradio.com
as either streaming audio or through XML for podcasting and
RSS feeds. Two episodes of the series were launched
Tuesday, and a new episode will be added weekly.
(Advocate.com)
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