Despite rising pressure to include sex education on the curricula of public schools, as a means of counteracting the rising AIDS epidemic in India, the southern Karnataka state has rejected the idea."In today's world, we need moral education and not sex education," declared Basavaraj Horatti, education minister of Karnataka (with Bangalore as its capital).
"Sex education as a subject was to be introduced in schools to create AIDS awareness.
But, school-going children are too young to contract the disease. It will unnecessarily affected their tender minds," pointed out the minister, rejecting the proposal by federal educational bodies.
The recommendation came in the wake of reports showing that AIDS has reached epidemic proportions in some parts of India.
Last year the country surpassed South Africa to become the nation reporting the greatest number of HIV-positive people, with 5.6 million cases reported by UN officials.
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