Sex ed in schools may help delay teen sex
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NEW YORK  - Sex education in school may encourage teenagers to put off having sexual intercourse, the results of a U.S. government study suggests.
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About half of all students who attend public high schools in New York City are sexually active, and 25% engage in sexual behavior that puts them at high risk of contracting HIV, Newsday reports.
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The Portland, Me., school board voted to allow middle-school students to gain access to prescription birth control medications without notifying parents.
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Recent research reveals how boys and girls react differently to having their first sexual experience.
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Parents can expect a withering look or an impatient wince if they remind their teenager to change out of pajamas before heading off to school these days.
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A high court battle between a schoolgirl and her head teacher over the right to wear a purity ring pledging her to virginity until marriage has reignited debate in Britain about how to make sex education effective.
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Even a couple brief sessions with a counselor may help prevent cases of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases among people at greatest risk, new research suggests.
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The long decline in sexual activity among U.S. teenagers, hailed as one of the nation's most important social and public health successes, appears to have stalled.
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Young people should be informed about sexual health services and have access to them, ministers say.
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Federally funded sex education programs that preach abstinence have been misleading and scaring children according to a congressional study.
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A health teacher at Argyle Middle School in Silver Spring spoke to eighth-graders yesterday about sexual orientation. And so began a pilot program in Montgomery County schools that delves deeper into issues of sexual and gender identity than most other school systems in the Washington region, if not...
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NEW YORK  - A sizable minority of sex education teachers does not cover all of the basics, and many lack training to teach sex ed at all, a survey of teachers in one state suggests.
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A radio show walks a thin line between useful education and societal condemnation, but its on-air hosts help China's teens make sense of sexuality. In Sex Drive Daily.
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LONDON (Agence de Presse Medicale) - British teenagers will be able to get text messages about contraception and safe sex as part of a campaign to reduce the high number of unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections, a charity announced.
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WASHINGTON - Fewer teens are engaging in sexual activity than in the past, and those that do are more likely to use contraceptives, the government said Friday.
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Delays in approving comprehensive HIV-AIDS education in District public schools are putting students at risk and impeding the city's promising efforts to combat the epidemic, according to a report to be released today.
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LET ME SEE if I have this right. At one end of the sexual life cycle, we have pubescent teenagers so driven by biology that they can barely concentrate on physics.