Joycelyn Elders Clinic at Uganda Humanist School offers Sex Education, Free Condoms, AFRIpads
By Hank Pellissier
Posted: Jul 20, 2016
Joycelyn Elders Clinic was recently launched by a USA nonprofit, to serve the 329 students attending Garama Humanist Secondary School in the village of Kisinga, in western Uganda.
he clinic is named after the US Surgeon General who was the first African-American appointed to the position. Born into a poor sharecropping family, Joycelyn Elders became valedictorian of her high school, and received her MD from the University of Arkansas. She was famous for her controversial opinions on sex education and contraceptive distribution in schools, and her criticism of the Catholic Church for its opposition to abortion.
In 1994, she was forced to resign from her position as Surgeon General by the Clinton administration, that surrendered to Republican pressure. Her dismissal came soon after a United Nations conference, where she had condoned the idea of teaching schoolchildren to masturbate as a way of avoiding the spread of the AIDS virus.
Today she is an Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics at University of Arkansas.
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