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Key messages
- Comprehensive RSE has many positive health outcomes for young people.
Positive outcomes
Comprehensive RSE programs have been found to:
- increase young people's confidence and ability to make informed decisions
- encourage respect, acceptance, equality and empathy
- encourage young people to delay sexual debut
- help young people to distinguish between accurate and inaccurate information online
- help prevent sexual abuse
- increase the use of contraceptives for those wanting to avoid unplanned pregnancies
- prevent sexually transmissible infections
- provide opportunities for young people to learn about and discuss relationships and sexual health issues in safe spaces outside of their homes
- be strongly support by most parents.2