In spring 1997, the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, in cooperation with the Ministry of Trade and Industry, will carry out an information campaign concerning sex tourism. The team of experts on prostitution set up by the National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health gave its final report in 1996. The team emphasized the responsibility of different administrative sectors for dealing with prostitution and proposed certain measures for preventing prostitution and mitigating its negative effects. The Government's equality programme, which was presented in February 1997, includes a chapter on commercial sex, prostitution and trafficking in wives, explaining the measures for which ministries will be responsible. The implementation of the Government's equality programme is monitored on a yearly basis.
Sex education is included in school curricula.
Moreover, the State finances special projects in this field as well as projects to eliminate young persons' social exclusion, in order to further prevent prostitution among the young. The organizers of the collection will deliver material relating to the issue to Finnish schools.