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Teens condom use up over the past two decades

Teens’ condom use up over the past two decades By Lauran Neergaard | ASSOCIATED PRESS JULY 25, 2012 WASHINGTON — Nearly half of high school students say they have had sex, yet progress has stalled in getting them to use condoms to protect against the AIDS virus, government researchers reported Tuesday. Today, 4 in every 10 new HIV infections occur in people younger than 30, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — and the teen years, just as many youths become sexually active, are key for getting across the safe-sex message. Using a longstanding survey of high...

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Researchers report more condom use among teenagers

More high school students are using condoms than 20 years ago - but progress has stalled with a lot of work still needed to protect young people from the AIDS virus, government researchers reported Tuesday. Today, 4 of every 10 new HIV infections occur in people younger than 30, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - and the teen years, just as youths become sexually active, are key for getting across the safe-sex message. Using a long-standing survey of high school students' health, the CDC tracked how teen sexual behavior has changed over 20 years. The results...

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Teen sex down...Condom use up.

By John Gever, Senior Editor, MedPage Today Published: October 12, 2011 The percentage of teens 15 to 19 years old reporting that they have had sexual intercourse has continued a long-term decline and now stands at just over 40%, according to CDC survey data from 2006 to 2010. Notably, the long-standing gender gap in adolescent sexual experience appears to have vanished, thanks to an especially steep decline in the proportion of boys and young men who reported having lost their virginity. When a similar survey was conducted in 1988, 51.1% of unmarried teen girls/women and 60.4% of teen boys/men said...

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WHY SHOULD TEENS USE CONDOMS

  Because if you want to have sex with someone, they're important! Sex can be great, but there are risks involved. Aside from all the emotional issues, you can catch STIs, and a woman can become pregnant. So if you don’t want to deal with these really tough situations, a condom is vital! Should the decision be left only to the male Some people think it's the man's job to make sure he uses a condom, some people think contraception is up to the woman. They're both wrong - it takes two to have sex, so both partners should make...

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