N.Y. State Suggests HIV Tests For 13-Year-Olds, Sex Ed In Elementary School
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — One in four adolescents is likely to acquire a sexually transmitted disease, according to the first ever Youth Sexual Health Plan released by New York State.
As CBS 2’s Vanessa Murdock reported, the state has launched a controversial plan to tackle sex education among youth.
The state Department of Health said some 60 percent of high school students in New York state reported they’d had sex by their senior year of high school, and more than 25 percent by their freshman year of high school.
More than one in 10 students said they did not use any method to protect against pregnancy using their last experience of sexual intercourse, while only 7.2 percent of sexually active students used a condom as well as another birth control method, the state said.
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