Full YoungAfricaLive Youth Sex Survey poll results

Earlier this year Praekelt Foundation released the recapitulated results of a groundbreaking Youth Sex Survey, conducted on its YoungAfricaLive mobile platform, that gives fascinating insight into the sexual behaviour and beliefs of South Africa’s youth.

Following the interest in the results, Praekelt Foundation decided to make public the full poll results.

Based on over 50 revealing questions and over 138 954 frank responses, the YoungAfricaLive Youth Sex Survey reveals that whilst South Africa’s youth are unquestionably sexually active (44%), they have strong views on the role of HIV/AIDS in sexual encounters, and the survey showed that 81% of respondents think that South Africans are having sex too young.

Says Debbie Rogers, lead strategist for Praekelt Foundation: “The polls in this survey are often asked within the context of an article on the portal and are therefore an interesting indication of the potential for behaviour change that is inherent in the YoungAfricaLive portal. As the community continues to grow beyond the 450,000 strong members whom are currently on the portal we aim to investigate a number of alternative, more scientific, studies which will investigate the affects of the portal in promoting behaviour change in the users”.