| The American Academy of Pediatrics provides an overview of the published research on evidence-based sexual and reproductive health education | Innovative, multicomponent, community-wide initiatives that use evidence-based adolescent pregnancy prevention interventions and reproductive health services including inclusion of moderately or highly effective contraceptive methods, such as long-acting reversible contraception have dramatically reduced pregnancy rates among African American and Hispanic individuals aged 15—19 years old |
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| American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists | Include information on consent and decision making, intimate partner violence, and healthyrelationships |
The effectiveness of group-based comprehensive risk-reduction and abstinence education interventions to prevent or reduce the risk of adolescent pregnancy, human immunodeficiency virus, and sexually transmitted infections: two systematic reviews for the Guide to Community Preventive Services.
10| Data have shown that not all programs are equally effective for all ages, races and ethnicities, socioeconomic groups, and geographic areas | Comprehensive sexuality education should be medically accurate, evidence-based, and age-appropriate, and should include the benefits of delaying sexual intercourse, while also providing information about normal reproductive development, contraception including long-acting reversible contraception methods to prevent unintended pregnancies, as well as barrier protection to prevent sexually transmitted infections |
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| However, they have concerns regarding sexuality similar to those of their peers without disabilities | Many states have requirements regarding topics that must be included in sex education programs |
Between 1996 and 2010, there was a strong emphasis in sexuality education on abstinence until marriage because of federal and state funding bans on comprehensive information about contraception.