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English: Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance, 2020 serves as a stark reminder that STDs continue to persist as a significant public health concern, even in the face of a pandemic. The new report reflects the realities of a strained public health infrastructure, while simultaneously providing the most current data on reported cases of STDs ...
[2] [3] [4] The CDC said in 2007, 35% of US high school students were currently sexually active and 47.8% of US high school students reported having had sexual intercourse. [5] In 2017, the percentage sexually active was down to 28.7%, and the percentage who had ever had intercourse was 39.5%. [ 4 ]
The National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP), formerly the National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHSTP) is a part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and is responsible for public health surveillance, prevention research, and programs to prevent and control human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and acquired ...
We’re talking sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), which are at an all-time high for the sixth consecutive year, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control said in a new report released Tuesday, day ...
During the state's first year banning the procedure, data from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission showed six children aged 11 or younger, two children aged 12-13 and nearly 30 children ...
Comprehensive sex education is the main topic in the documentary The Education of Shelby Knox (2005) about Lubbock, Texas, which has one of the highest teen pregnancy and STD rates in the nation; the "solution" to which is a strict abstinence-only sex education curriculum in the public schools and a conservative preacher who urges kids to ...
Scrutiny of books in schools intensified in Texas last year, as state Rep. Matt Krause, R-Fort Worth, chairman of the House Committee on General Investigating, requested that superintendents ...
86% of parents want schools to teach their children how to get STD testing, 77% want their children to learn how to talk to a partner about STDs and birth control, 71% want them to learn how to use condoms, and 68% want them to learn about using other forms of birth control. Students are also opposed to abstinence-only education.