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Kids & HIV

August 21, 2011 by Tom Thayer in Health, News with 0 Comments

Do you children? Nieces, nephews, cousins? Any young person is living a new world full of dangers with HIV/AIDS being one of them. Nearly 7 out of 10 youth are having sex! YES, the latest National Survey of Family Growth (Federal Study) pointed said that abstinence was on the rise—from 22% in 2002 to about 28% by 2008. But failed to also mention that people in their late teens and early 20s are having more sex. 7 of 10….

Philadelphia has the highest rate of teen sexual activity in the country—and the lowest rate of condom use. Abstinence isn’t working there. Also Philadelphia has the nation’s 5th highest teen HIV rate.
Overall, Americans between ages 13 and 20 comprise 34% of the country’s new HIV infections. Globally, people younger than 25 account for more than half of all new HIV cases. We all can deny that kids are having sex and refuse to teach comprehensive sex ed, offering instead abstinence-only or abstinence-until-marriage, kids will remain powerless to protect themselves while gripped by raging hormones. You can figure it out what will be the outcome. And youth with use ‘other’ means of sex to avoid loosing their virginity. Abstinence only does not work, never has and never will. We need groups like AIDS Response Effort, (ARE) or other AIDS Service Organizations around the country to be allowed into schools to teach, educate and promote safe sex but also tell & explain the consequences of bad decisions. ARE promotes abstinence if we can but we know what happens out there in the real world…….

Keep your kids informed…..before other decisions are forced to be made after they get into trouble.

Tom Thayer

http://www.poz.com/articles/Youth_Sex_HIV_2641_20943.shtml

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