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NC committee OKs bill banning STD tests and counseling for teens
A North Carolina state House committee on Tuesday passed a bill that would ban teenagers from having tests or even counseling for sexually transmitted diseases without a parent’s consent. The House Health and Human Services Committee gave a favorable report to House Bill 693 by a vote of 14 to…
Argentina plans to give out 82 million condoms in 2013
Argentina plans to give out 82 million condoms nationwide in 2013 in a campaign against sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV, the health ministry said Friday. The condoms will be handed out at health centers, schools, prisons, bars and nightclubs, as well as through a network of nearly 3,000 fixed spots…
Washington parent: Sex education is ‘just the same as raping somebody’
Parents in Washington state — and a few conservative websites — are outraged after an elementary school principal described sex acts during a sexual education class last week. According to KCPQ, the principal of Onalaska Elementary School was talking to 11- and 12-year-old students about HIV and sexually transmitted diseases…
Some girls overestimate HPV vaccine protection
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Some adolescent girls who get the HPV vaccine to prevent cervical cancer wrongly think they no longer need to practice safe sex, U.S. researchers said on Monday. The study, published in the Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine, shows the need for better education about the vaccines…
Fundie message to young people of color: thou shalt not master your domain
Do you remember Joycelyn Elders, the first black U.S. surgeon general, who served during the Clinton administration and stepped into a steaming pile of American Victorianism in regards to sexuality and safer sex? She was given the boot resigned after a brief 15 months: In 1994, she became a lightning…
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