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- Faith and values: Parents, youths embrace power of knowledge (Billings Gazette)
The news tells us that teenage pregnancy is on the increase again. More and more teens are contracting sexually transmitted diseases. We have learned that the "abstinence only" programs are not working, at least not after the first six months. ... - Study: Benefit To Women Not Enough To Sway Men To Get HPV Vaccine (Medical News Today)
Informing men that a new vaccine to prevent human papillomavirus (HPV) would also help protect their female partners against developing cervical cancer from the sexually transmitted infection did not increase their interest in getting the vaccine, according to a new Florida State University study. - 'Condom cards' for 12-year-old boys so they can get free contraceptives (without parents knowing) (Daily Mail)
The tax-payer funded scheme let them pick up packets of condoms from football grounds, barber's shops and health centres simply by showing the plastic card. - Bill would cut reinfection of STDs, health risks (SouthtownStar)
Not a week goes by that Dr. Matthew Johnson doesn't treat a patient in his Park Forest office for a reinfected sexually transmitted disease. The sexual partner of a patient skips seeking treatment of his or her own, and his patient comes in infected again. It's a revolving door for diseases like gonorrhea and chlamydia that health care providers have tried to slow for years. And as infection ... - More Scots children get STDs (The Herald)
The number of cases of sexually transmitted diseases among children has risen in the past four years. Chlamydia, an infection which can damage female reproductive organs, increased among 10 to 15-year-olds from 249 to 318 cases between 2004 and 2008. - Budget stalled, Quinn receives more than 800 bills (Chicago Tribune)
More than 800 pieces of legislation were passed this session, but the biggest item still needs work SPRINGFIELD -- Lawmakers left town with more work to do on the state budget, but they did manage to pass more than 800 bills on everything from keeping a closer eye on sex offenders to letting truckers drive faster on interstates.