African American Sex Education

The lack of sex education in black schools, have had a negative effect on the African American communities. I say this because the momentum of HIV/AIDS and teen pregnancy has exponentially swell. Four years I spent in high school, I can only count 1 time that I have been inform about HIV. Moreover, for those people with less intel on HIV/AIDS according to Global information and education on HIV/AID. HIV is a virus that attacks the immune system, which is our body’s natural defense against illness. The virus destroys a type of white blood cell in the immune system called a T-helper cell, and makes copies of itself inside these cells. T-helper cells are also referred to as CD4 cells and AIDS is not a virus but a set of symptoms (or syndrome)

Because of the lack of sex education these teens make the same mistakes their parent made, simply because they did not know or had someone who can teach them how to stay protect. Moreover, over more than half of the teen pregnancy in Atlanta Georgia is unintended: according to the Guttmatcher institute a health program in Atlanta Georgia in 2010, 60% of all pregnancies (119,000) in Georgia were unintended so if these teens were well informed about any sexual activities, the rating wouldn’t have been this high, they also say In 2011, the most recent year for which national-level data are available, 45% of all pregnancies in the United States were unintended, including three out of four pregnancies to women younger than 20, and there were 45 unintended pregnancies per every 1,000 women aged 15–44, a rate significantly higher than that in many other developed countries. Furthermore, these horrible states are cause by the lack of sex education unfortunately because more than half of the teen pregnancy is unintended its creating another problem within itself, abortion. Although these teens know that they are carrying a living child in their womb sometimes it can be too much for a 18,19 years old, and the only solution that comes to their mind is abortion. According to Guttmatcher institute a health program in Atlanta Georgia in 2011, the 63 million U.S. women of reproductive age (15–44) had six million pregnancies. Sixty-seven percent of these