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    Talking Sex with Teens: Community Health Centers ACT for Change

    Today’s adolescents are engaging in risky sexual behaviors at earlier ages than ever before, resulting in nearly 250,000 teen births in 2014 and nearly 10 million new sexually transmitted infections annually. Sexually transmitted infections are a significant public health problem in the United States and of particular concern in...

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    Research Behind the RAAPS Questions (Question #17)

    Do you have questions about abstinence (saying no to sex), condoms, birth control, HIV/AIDS, or sexually transmitted infections (STI)? The increase in sexual experimentation that often occurs during adolescent years can have adverse consequences, such as sexually transmitted infections. Did you know? –  In 2006, an estimated 5,259 young...

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    Research Behind the RAAPS Questions (Question #16)

    Many of the consequences of adolescent sexual intercourse, such as unintended pregnancy and STI infections, occur because of lack of condom use or other methods of birth control. Did you know? –  Approximately 25% of teen females and 18% of teen males use no method of contraception at first...

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