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News Briefs for the Teen Pregnancy Prevention in Connecticut Web site was last updated June, 2008.

Fewer and fewer states across the nation are accepting the millions of federal abstinence education dollars that are out there these days.  According to recent newspaper reports, almost half of all states have rejected the opportunity to apply for these monies because the approach to teen pregnancy prevention strongly supported by Bush Administration doesn't appear to do much goodIf states accept the monies, instructors must teach that sexual activity outside marriage is likely to have harmful psychological and physical effects.  And more and more states are concluding that this is unrealistic.  Continue to watch this space to learn more about what happens with this federal program.
 

According to the latest Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), about 48% of high school students in grades 9 through 12, had ever had sexual intercourse; 35% were currently sexually active; and more than 38% of currently sexually active students had not used a condom during last sexual intercourse.  The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) includes a national school-based survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state and local school-based surveys conducted by state and local education and health agencies. This report summarizes results from the national survey, 39 state surveys, and 22 local surveys conducted among students in grades 9-12 during 2007.  The complete report is available at http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss5704a1.htm.

Nationwide, the teen pregnancy rate declined 5% between 2002 and 2004 according to data  from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics. To read the NCHS press release or to get additional information on changing teen pregnancy rates from the National Campaign, follow this link and please click here.

For the first time in 14 years, the teen birth rate in the United States has gone up, according to the National Center for Health Statistics.  Using preliminary data from 2006 the NCHS reports that for American teenagers betweens the ages of 15 and 19, the birth rate rose to 41.9 births per 1,000 females in 2006.  Furthermore, the birth rate for teens aged 15 to 17 rose 3 percent to 22 per 1,000 in 2006 and among 18 and 19 year olds the increase went up 4 percent to 73.0 per 1,000 for the same time period.  Read the original article or the corresponding press release by following this link to www.teenpregnancy.org.

Emerging Answers 2007, by researcher Douglas Kirby, Ph.D., is the newest and most comprehensive review  of evaluation research that answers the question, which programs work to prevent teen pregnancy.   Find out if what you're doing in your community is likely to be helping to reduce teen pregnancy by reading the report on line.   Follow this link to www.teenpregnancy.org

The 2007 Fact Sheet on Reproductive Health:  Adolescents and Young Adults was recently made available through the National Adolescent Health Information Center (NAHIC).  This fact sheet focuses on data describing the reproductive health of adolescents and young adults between the ages of 13 and 24.  Topics included in the fact sheet include pregnancy rates and birth outcomes, sexual experience, STDs, and use of condoms and birth control pills.  The fact sheet can be downloaded by following this link to Http://nahic.ucsf.edu/downloads/ReproHlth2007.pdf

 

 

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