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 these ...

The board of education agreed Monday night that an education and testing program focused on sexually transmitted diseases should continue at the high school. The board did not vote, but no members ...

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 these ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the importance of programs that test for communicable diseases and help prevent their spread. These same lessons should be applied to sexually transmitted diseases, ...

Brereton-Moore, a nurse at Shore Medical Center, wants high school teenagers to know about sexual health at a time when STD rates are rising in many South Jersey counties and the United States. “I don ...

When a national study released in March found one in four girls aged 14 to 19 are infected with at least one sexually transmitted disease, some parents and teenagers were shocked. But physicians and ...

More than 19 million people in the U.S. are infected with sexually transmitted diseases and infections, and according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention more than half of those infected ...

Rates of sexually transmitted diseases have risen for the fourth consecutive year to a record high, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But Northwestern hasn’t changed its ...

Reports of rises in STDs such as chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis for the fourth consecutive year can be evidently linked to the inaccurate and low number of high school sex-ed classes in high ...

The HIV/STD epidemics have broadened the need for better behavioral intervention programs and high-lighted the importance of providing training in behavioral theory to frontline program practitioners.

Many Ghanaian preteens can name HIV but remain unaware of other sexually transmitted diseases, revealing deep gaps in sex education that experts say could endanger the next generation’s health, ...