Index: November 15, 2013

Originally Posted on The Yale Herald via UWIRE

418

American public high schools where condoms are available to students (out of almost 100,000).

20

Percentage of newly HIV-infected 13-24 year-olds.

26

States that teach abstinence as the main method of pregnancy prevention in high schools.

0

Amount of impact that abstinence-only education has on rates of abstinence.

55

Births per 1,000 girls in Mississippi, the highest teen pregnancy rate in the country, where abstinence is taught if sex ed is taught at all.

Sources: 1) Advocates for Youth 2) Centers for Disease Control 3) Guttamacher Institute 4) Mathematica Policy 5) CNN

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