Bringing high-quality HIV and STD prevention to youth In schools : CDC’s Division of Adolescent and School Health

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (U.S.). Division of Adolescent and School Health.
• Description:
  By the time young people graduate from high school, almost two thirds have had sex. Nearly 40 percent of sexually active students did not use a condom the last time they had sex, and one in five drank alcohol or took drugs before their last sexual intercourse. Such risky sexual behaviors can have serious health consequences:
  
  • Approximately 18 percent of all new HIV diagnoses are among young people aged 13–24 years.*
  
  • Teens and young adults have the highest rates of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) of any age group.
  
  • Three in 10 young women become pregnant before they reach the age of 20.
  
  Helping adolescents make healthy choices requires the involvement of families, communities, and many other sectors of society—and schools are an essential part of that effort:
  
  • Schools have direct contact with more than 56 million students for at least 6 hours a day and for 13 critical years of their social, physical, and intellectual development.
  
  • The school environment is a key setting in which students’ behaviors and ideas are shaped.
  
  • Just as schools are critical to preparing students academically and socially, they are also vital partners in helping young people take responsibility for their health and adopt health-enhancing attitudes and behaviors that can last a lifetime.
  
  CS216499
  
  hivstd_prevention.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Health Health Education Health Promotion HIV Infections/prevention & Control School Health Services Sexually Transmitted Diseases/prevention & Control
• Document Type:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Name as Subject:
  National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (U.S.). Division of Adolescent and School Health. ; National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (U.S.). Division of Adolescent and School Health.
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  4 unnumbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:c571dc34c36c407bd776dc0d3b70fa0f50d8b9093997246752dbe3fc09f9fc2c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/60015/cdc_60015_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 356.64 KB ]