Abstinence program making huge impact in Africa: 61% reduction in teen pregnancy

Abstinence program making huge impact in Africa: 61% reduction in teen pregnancy...

"I want you, My child, to tell the world, that, as your God, there shall be great suffering placed upon mankind in the near future; more so than the plague that was allowed to be sent down upon you--AIDS. We warned you over and over again, through years of visitations upon earth--My Mother going to and fro to warn you, that those who have given themselves over to debasement, by the practice of homosexuality, birth control, abortion and all other aberrations that bring sorrow to My Mother's heart--this must be stopped now. There shall be no excuse accepted in Heaven by the saints, nor by My Mother and I, or the Eternal Father and the Holy Ghost, for what you are doing upon earth now.
"AIDS was a plague, and is a plague, and shall continue to be a plague, as long as you will not change your course of destruction. What else must We allow to come upon you? No, My children, there will be no relief for those suffering from AIDS; for it is a penance from a just God. For their punishment will be greater, the suffering that they incur will save many from hell, and give them the chance to enter upon a penance in purgatory." - Jesus, June 6, 1987

LifeSiteNews.com reported on June 30, 2006:

A United Families International intervention program has been credited by scholarly evaluators with making a statistically significant impact on the sexual health of pre-adolescent children in Africa. Since 2001, the Stay Alive Program has been taught in nine African nations to more than 750,000 African children and their families.

An independent program outcome evaluation in Kenya was conducted over a 2½-year time period, examining 957 children, ages 9-14, in 51 different schools representing a diverse range of social economic status, gender, religions and geographic settings.

As reported by researchers at the International Conference on Global Health, in Washington, D.C., the results were overwhelmingly positive.

Researchers found that Stay Alive instruction leads to a high level of behavioral change among youth. Pregnancy rates dropped from 20.8 per 1,000 female students in the year prior to the Stay Alive Program being taught, to 8.2 per 1,000 female students the year after the Stay Alive Program was taught. This represents a 61-percent drop in pregnancy after the Stay Alive Program was taught in the schools.

On pre/post testing, up to one year after being taught the Stay Alive Program, the children demonstrated a statistically significant improvement in understanding how HIV/AIDS is transmitted. This statistically significant difference was not observed in children who had not been taught the Stay Alive Program.

During ethnographic interviews, it was found that prior to the Stay Alive Program being taught, the children commonly expressed a culturally fatalistic belief regarding their ability to affect their own future. When questioned about the concepts taught in the Stay Alive Program (e.g., what can you decide to do right now that will affect your future?) more than half (54.7 percent) of the children gave answers which reflected an external focus of control.

On pre/post testing up to one year after being taught the Stay Alive Program, children demonstrated a statistically significant improvement in describing the concepts of choice, consequences and the possible permanence of consequence. Additionally, children demonstrated statistically significant improvement in their concrete abilities to give examples of good choices and bad choices that they could make. This statistically significant difference was not observed in children who had not been taught the Stay Alive Program.

Young women reported a statistically significant change in perception regarding their ability to decide to resist sexual advances by males in order to protect their future families. Young men also reported a statistically significant change in perception regarding their need to decide to accept such resistance, to protect their future families. Interviews suggest that the Stay Alive Program keyed into the cultural belief that women have the right to “protect the family.”

Also statistically significant was the improvement in the level of communication that parents and care-givers are having with their children regarding sexual matters and HIV/AIDS.

Authored by Wendy Sheffield, MSW, LCSW, the Stay Alive lessons address the HIV/AIDS pandemic ravaging Africa by targeting children ages 9-14 and empowering them to make smart choices before they become sexually active. Children learn about HIV/AIDS, what it is, how it is transmitted and how they can protect themselves from contracting it by being abstinent before marriage and faithful in marriage. Guiding principles target consequential thinking skills, individual worth, abstinence, family, empowerment, hope.

For additional information, please see: http://www.stayalive.org.

"O My child and My children, never have We seen from the beginning of time a world in such chaos. And also, I shall not speak with words that affright your heart, my child, but I wish it known that this new modern role of what they call 'marriage without marriage'--which means living as 'common-law,' I understand, My children--shall not be tolerated in Heaven. It was never the plan of the Eternal Father that man and woman shall live as animals.
"Fornication shall never be accepted. There is no excuse for fornication. If you cannot remain celibate, better then that you must then be married. It is better, My child and My children, to be married than to burn in hell.” – Our Lady of the Roses, November 1, 1985

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