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Award was presented by Ronan Keating, TV presenter Gaby Roslin hosted the evening, and Alison Moyet wrapped up the event with a smoky-voiced set of songs. "This has put HIV back on the charity agenda," commented Positive Futures director Andrew Little.
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Teens ignorant of Aids
According to a survey of 42,000 young people between the ages of 10 and
15, compiled by the Schools Health Education Unit, 40 per cent of boys
have never heard of HIV or Aids and 16 per cent of 15-year-olds thought
that HIV could be contracted from a toilet seat.
Nick Partridge, THT chief executive, said that young people in Britain
would bear the brunt of HIV because we lack the courage to arm them against
it.
"As long as parents continue to withdraw children from sex education,"
Partridge continued, "and as long as the spectre of Section 28 deters
teachers from fully educating young people about sexuality, the trend
of poor sexual health in the UK will continue to accelerate."
Another survey of sexual habits, published in the Lancet last month, found
that Britons have more partners, more homosexual encounters and indulge
in more two-timing than they did a decade ago.
The National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles 2000 found that those
