Ohio, one of a handful of states without comprehensive sex education taught in schools, has a higher teen birth rate than the national average. The national birth rate for females 15-19 years old was ...

Fifteen months ago, Solidad Odunuga received a phone call from the Houston Health Department. Odunuga’s daughter, who had been living on and off the streets, had given birth to a baby boy named ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Arkansas remains one of just a handful of states without legal requirements for sex education in the midst of rising cases of sexually transmitted diseases. In 2018, the Centers ...

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SALT LAKE COUNTY — The Salt Lake County Health Department has released its annual disease report, and sexually transmitted diseases are at the top of the list. The department’s 2018 Infectious ...

NEWPORT, Ark. (KAIT) - Doctors are on high alert in Jackson County as it leads the state in the growth rate of syphilis cases. Dr. Omar Aziz, an obstetrics and gynecology specialist at Harris Medical ...

Brazil is cutting funding for sex education as the country experiences a sharp increase in incidences of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The balance of the country's political power has moved ...

Sexually transmitted diseases are becoming increasingly common throughout the country, and thousands of people in Los Angeles County have been infected. Many of them don’t know it. Regular testing for ...

On Thursday the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, backed by Gov. Jared Polis, issued a public health order to address what has been deemed an epidemic. State data shows that ...

Arizona is in the midst of a syphilis oubreak among women and newborns that caused the deaths of 10 babies last year, state data shows. Deaths from congenital syphilis — syphilis passed from a mother ...