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The HSRC Press is a non-profit publisher committed to the dissemination of high quality social science publications, in print and electronic form. It supports. The HSRC Press is a hybrid press, with a mandate to disseminate Human Sciences Research Council research output and other valuable social science research.

The HSRC Press is a non-profit publisher committed to the dissemination of high quality social science publications, in print and electronic form. Our print-based publications are significantly more affordable as the sale prices for print based publications do not include profit margins. Unusual attention is paid to each publication we produce as we are not constrained by the commercial demand of publishing a large numbers of titles annually. The formal peer-review process guarantees the highest academic quality. The Press has a very active local and international marketing programme, in addition to collaborating with foreign publishers on specific titles. The authors of Old Enough To Know: Consulting Children About Sex and AIDS Education in Africa, Colleen McLaughlin, Sharlene Swartz, Susan Kiragu, Mussa Mohamed and Shelina Walli, spent two years finding out just how much children already know about sex. They worked with children aged approximately 12 years and used the innovative photo-voice method to allow the children to share the sources that they learnt about sex from. The children were given cameras and told to photograph the people and places that they were getting their information from. The need for such efforts remains acute but is fraught with difficulty as deep-rooted socio-cultural, religious and moral constraints remain barriers to effective sex education across Africa and beyond. Old Enough To Know showcases the possibilities of consulting pupils using engaging, interactive and visual methods including digital still photography, mini-video documentaries, as well as interviews and observations. These innovative methods allow childr