A new report from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) looks at the rising rates of Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) in the United States. While the report shows there are approximately 19 million new STD infections each year, the highest risk group for contracting STDs are young women between the ages of 15 [...]
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CDC Report: Comprehensive Sex Education is Effective
Found via the National Partnership for Women and Families website. A new report, commissioned by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, reached the following conclusions:
Sex education programs that advise students to delay sexual activity while also offering instruction on ways to avoid unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections effectively reduce risky [...]
Today is World Contraception Day
From a email we received:
About World Contraception Day
World Contraception Day (WCD) is an international awareness campaign for teenagers. Its long-term goal is to make the public more aware of the topic of contraception. The annual WCD significantly helps educate teens on contraception and sexuality, but also all respective health questions.
Every year, countries and regions around [...]
STI Education and Testing in the News
Because of rising Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) rates, some local governments are planning on instituting some new policies. From The Daily Women’s Health Report:
Washington, D.C., officials are planning to make testing for sexually transmitted infections available at all public high schools in the coming school year, adding D.C. to a growing list of [...]
Teen Dating Violence Education Works
From Science Daily, a new study indicates that educating teens about healthy relationships can reap positive results:
A school-based program that integrates information about healthy relationships into the existing ninth-grade curriculum appears to reduce adolescent dating violence and increase condom use two and a half years later, according to a report in the August issue of [...]
New Report: U.S. Teen Pregnancy, STDs on the Rise
From the ABC News website, a new report from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) found that after years of declining numbers, teenage birth rates and occurrences of STD infections are on the rise:
* About one-third of adolescents hadn’t received instruction on methods of birth control before age 18.
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Today is National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
Today, May 6th, 2009, is the National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy.
The Website RHReality Check has some thought provoking articles about teen pregnancy prevention.
The New York Times has an interesting piece about the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Campaign of North Carolina and how they are using text messaging to teach sex education [...]
