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Districts must have a program that has technically accurate information and curriculum.

Among students who had sex in the three months prior to the survey, 54 percent reported condom use and 30 percent reported using birth control pills, an intrauterine device (IUD), implant, shot or ring during their last sexual encounter.

Though the teen birth rate has declined to its lowest levels since data collection began, the United States still has the highest teen birth rate in the industrialized world.

Teenage mothers are less likely to finish high school and are more likely than their peers to live in poverty, depend on public assistance, and be in poor health.

Their children are more likely to suffer health and cognitive disadvantages, come in contact with the child welfare and correctional systems, live in poverty, drop out of high school and become teen parents themselves.

These costs add up, according to The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, which estimates that teen childbearing costs taxpayers at least 9.4 billion annually.

Between 1991 and 2015, the teen birth rate dropped 64, resulting in approximately 4.4 billion in public savings in one year alone.

Young people ages 15 to 24 represent 25 percent of the sexually active population, but acquire half of all new STIs, or about 10 million new cases a year.

Though many cases of STIs continue to go undiagnosed and unreported, one in four sexually-active adolescent females is reported to have an STI.

The rate of reported cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and primary and secondary syphilis increased among those aged 15-24 years old between 2017-2018.

Rates of reported chlamydia cases are consistently highest among women aged 15-24 years, and rates of reported gonorrhea cases are consistently highest among men aged 15-24 years.

A CDC analysis reveals the annual number of new STIs is roughly equal among young women and young men.

However, women are more likely to experience long-term health complications from untreated STIs and adolescent females may have increased susceptibility to infection due to biological reasons.

In 2017, approximately 21 percent of new HIV diagnoses were among young people ages 13 to 24 years.

State definitions of medically accurate vary, from requiring that the department of health review curriculum for accuracy, to mandating that curriculum be based on information from published authorities upon which medical professionals rely.

See table on medically accuracy laws.).

At minimum the instruction shall be medically accurate, age-appropriate, promote abstinence, discourage drug abuse and dispel myths regarding the transmission of HIV.

Each student shall receive instruction at least once in junior high school or middle school and at least once in high school.

The information must be age-appropriate, medically accurate and objective.

Human sexuality instruction is not required, but a school district that offers a human sexuality curriculum shall be comprehensive and maintain content standards for the curriculum that are based on scientific research.

Curriculum content standards shall be age-appropriate, medically accurate, encourage parental involvement and family communication, and promote the development of healthy relationships.

All schools that provide sex education courses are required to be developmentally and age appropriate, medically accurate, evidence-based and complete.

Comprehensive sex education offered in grades six through 12 must include instruction on both abstinence and contraception for the prevention of pregnancy and diseases.

Research-based includes information recognized as medically accurate and objective by leading professional organizations and agencies with relevant expertise in the field.

Sex education shall mean the dissemination of factual biological or pathological information that is related to the human reproductive system and may include the study of sexually transmitted disease, pregnancy, childbirth, puberty, menstruation and menopause, as well as the dissemination of factual information about parental responsibilities under the child support laws of the state.

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