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This week, an AP story about the growing number of states walking away from federal abstinence funding is being hailed by some as a death knell for the abstinence movement. But many inside the pro-family camp see the wave of opposition for what it really is -- a conspiracy to undermine a proven approach for delaying teen sexual activity. Sadly, at least 17 states are walking away from the Title V...
The nation's campaign to get more teenagers to delay sex and use condoms is faltering, threatening to undermine the highly successful effort to reduce teen pregnancy and protect young people from sexually transmitted diseases, federal officials reported today.
A bill to stem rising STDs and teen pregnancies rates by broadening sex ed failed to become law again. Proponents have their eyes on potential changes at the Capitol.
Singapore - The number of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among teenagers is forecast to hit a record high in Singapore this year with some having sex as early as 12, a published report said on Sunday. The top two STIs are chlamydia for girls ...
Things like this make one understand the tendency among most cultures in history to criminalize most sex, espcially when these most of these things, rather than just a few, would kill you. One Quarter of American Teen Girls Have STDs NPR.url I noted the depressing stat that 48% of black American girls are ‘positive’ in an earlier post … Disaster.
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I recently read the depressing news that fully one-quarter of teenaged girls in America have a sexually transmitted disease. Among black girls, it rises to a truly alarming fifty percent. This study reminded me of a poem I wrote urging teen girls to practice sexual abstinence. Yes, in this particular poem I targeted the girls [...]
A national study found that one in four teenage girls has at least one of four common sexually transmitted infections : the human papillomavirus (HPV), Chlamydia, genital herpes, and trichomoniasis (a parasite). Although these diseases, if left untreated, can lead to cervical cancer, infertility, and pelvic inflammatory disease, young women could easily not know they have them unless they get regular...
This week on Reality Cast, I’ll be interviewing Aspen Baker from Exhale. Also, news on how the CDC injected a sobering reality into the discourse about teen sex, why the Elliot Spitzer revelations are causing mass media stupidity, and the new threat of the “female agenda”.
The CDC recently reported that one in four teen girls, sexually active or not, has a sexually transmitted infection. But all four out of four teen girls need better prevention education to avoid STIs and make healthier decisions.
The first national study in the United States of four common sexually transmitted diseases among girls and young women has found that one in four are infected with at least one of the diseases, federal health officials reported. Nearly half the blacks in the study of teenagers ages 14 to 19 were infected with at least one of the diseases monitored in the study -- human papillomavirus (HPV), chlamydia,...
A recent study by the CDC suggests that 1 in 4 teenage girls have a sexually transmitted disease . This may include the genital wart virus , chlamydia , or trichomoniasis , among others. This doesn't surprise me at all. Sex in teenagers in incredibly common - by age 15, about half of teen girls have had intercourse, and probably more have given or received oral sex . And it often isn't with committed...
Teenage STDs: More than one-quarter of U.S. teen girls -- 3.2 million people -- have a sexually transmitted disease, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study says. ...
A new study finds that one out of every four teen girls has a sexually transmitted disease. An official involved in the study discusses why the figure is so high and why African-American girls are the hardest hit.
