Singapore tackles teen STDs

Radio Australia
1 Aug 2008

In Singapore the government has drawn up a new programme to stop the spread of sexually-transmitted infections, or STIs among the nation's teenagers.

The programme is targetted at students in what's called the "normal stream". In typical Singapore fashion, secondary school students are divided into streams - "express" for the more academically-advanced, "normal" for average students and "normal technical" which gears them for a trade. Students in the "normal and normal technical streams" have been identified by counsellors to be especially "at risk.

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