Sexually Transmitted Diseases

and

Unintended Pregnancy Prevention

 

 

2009 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS):

·According to  the 2009 YRBS, 54.1% of West 

Virginia High School students have engaged in sexual intercourse.   WOW! 

 

*Percentage of high school students who have ever had sexual intercourse with FOUR or MORE people during their lifetime was 15.5. 

 

*Among students who ever had sexual intercourse during the past three months, the percentage who drank alcohol or used drugs before the last sexual intercourse was 22.3 in 2009. 

The Youth Risk Behavior survey(YRBS) can be viewed here.

 

 

West Virginia School Health Profiles

The School Health Profiles Survey (Profiles) is a system of surveys assessing school health policies and programs in states and large urban school districts. Profiles surveys are conducted biennially by state and local education and health agencies among middle and high school principals and lead health education teachers.

• 28% required students to take 2 or more health
  education courses.
• 91% taught 8 key pregnancy, HIV, or other STD prevention topics in a required health course.
• 43% taught 4 key topics related to condom use in a required course.
• 83% had a health education curriculum that addresses
  all 8 national standards for health education.
• 95% taught how to access valid and reliable health
  information, products, or services related to HIV, other
  STDs, and pregnancy in a required course.
• 28% had a lead health education teacher who received
  professional development during the 2 years before the
  survey on HIV prevention.
• 23% had a lead health education teacher who received
  professional development during the 2 years before the
  survey on pregnancy prevention.

Go to http://www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/profiles/index.htm to view the entire survey.

 

HEADLINE...

1 in 4 United States Teen Girls Has Sexually Transimitted Disease!

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC) slightly more than one in four US females ages 14-19 has a SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE!  The survey was based on only 838 females who participatedin the nationally representative 2003-04 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

Among the teens:

• 18%  HPV
• 4%    Chlamydia         

• 2.5% Trichomoniasis          

• 2%    Herpes simplex Virus

 

Current Statistics:

·WV was the only state in the U.S. with an increase in teen birth rate by 17% among 15-17 year old girls. 

·WV ranked 42nd in rates for Gonorrhea in the US for 2009.

·WV ranks 47th in low rates of Chlamydia in the US for 2009.

Go to http://www.cdc.gov/ for more informaiton on these STDs.

 

Teaching Sexual Health website

Teaching Sexual Health website (http://www.teachingsexualhealth.ca/).

 

Guidelines for Sexuality Education

• For guidelines to answering sensitive questions, go to the Teacher section, click on Teacher’s Lounge, then from the left side menu click on Responding to Questions http://www.teachingsexualhealth.ca/teacher/teacherslounge/respondingquestions.html
• For information on preparing yourself, your class, and parents/community for sexuality education programs in schools,  go to the Teacher section, click on Teacher’s Lounge  and click on “How to Teach Human Sexuality” (also in the left side menu) http://www.teachingsexualhealth.ca/teacher/howtoteach.html.

To find sample answers to sensitive questions:

• In the Student section, click on got a question? then select the school level – elementary, junior high or senior high.
  http://www.teachingsexualhealth.ca/parentstudent/pages/aminormal.html

• In the Teachers section, click on I have a question!, then click on get an answer http://www.teachingsexualhealth.ca/teacher/getananswer.html

(Please note, some answers about curriculum issues and regulations are specific to Canada).

Power Point:

2011 KidStrong Conference: "The Continuum of Education: A Collaborative Approach to Reproductive Health"