Little progress has been made recently in increasing the proportion of middle and high schools that teach HIV, STD, and pregnancy prevention topics ...

Schools have made little progress in recent years in teaching students about preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, including HIV, according to one measure of the teaching of ...

WITH sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) becoming a growing concern in schools and higher education institutions (HEIs), academics say more must be done to correct misconceptions, ensure students ...

When eight high school students are commissioned to make a graphic novel about sexual health, don’t be surprised if the result includes pet dragons, a troll with genital warts and a guy named… ...

Teaching STD and pregnancy prevention in middles schools and high schools has not improved in recent years, a new government report says.

In April, after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its 2020 STD Surveillance Report, concerns were raised by the organization noting increased rates of sexually transmitted ...

Kim Ventriglia, school nurse at Charter Tech High School, helps educate and inform teens at about STDs. May 23, 2016. (The Press of Atlantic City/ Viviana Pernot) ...

Five of the 30 cities with the highest STD rates per 100,000 people nationally are located in Florida.

This study evaluated the effects of an AIDS/STD curriculum for 9th- and 10th-grade students in the Netherlands. Curriculum development was based on (1) theory-based need assessments among students and ...

Sexually transmitted diseases are on the rise across the state, specifically on the University of Minnesota campus. Statewide, STD rates climbed 6 percent from 2013 to 2014. On campus, they rose 1.4 ...

While some STDs have obvious symptoms, such as the genital warts that manifest with some strains of HPV, other infections, including chlamydia, can be asymptomatic.