These Rutgers grads taught a new type of sex ed to Muslim youth in N.J.
Updated Dec 09, 2020;
Because Islam forbids sex before marriage, sexual education in the orthodox Muslim community has long been a fraught proposition.
But, by flipping the formula on its head with an abstinence-based approach implemented in a Newark mosque, an interfaith team of Rutgers graduates have made inroads on an HIV prevention initiative for Muslim adolescents.
“They needed a culturally competent type of curriculum that’s going to be in line with their beliefs and their values,” co-author Dr. Shaakira Abdullah, Professor of Nursing at Widener University, told NJ Advance Media.