Nevada County Citizens for Choice

Review by the Guttmacher Institute of "Efficacy of a Theory-Based Abstinence-Only Intervention Over 24 Months," Guttmacher.org/media/.../03/EvidenceCheck/Jemmott-study.PDF.

In the review, under "Background," the advisory states: "An abstinence-only intervention aimed at young, urban African-American adolescents successfully delayed sexual initiation among participants in the program... While the evaluated program is the first abstinence-only intervention to demonstrate this positive impact in a randomized control trial, it was not a rigid "abstinence-only-until-marriage" program of the type that, until this year, received significant federal funding. The evalution, therefore, add important new information to the question of "what works" in sex education, but it essentially leaves intact the significant body of evidence showing that abstinence-only-until-marriage programming that met previous federal guidelines is ineffective."