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Abstinence programs effective, new study shows February 02, 2010
A new study has demonstrated that classroom programs that promote sexual abstinence are successful in reducing the likelihood that students will engage in pre-marital sexual activity. Sex-education programs that emphasized condom use had no discernible impact on teens' sexual activity, the study found.The study, which followed adolescent African-American students for two years after they completed the classroom programs, was published in the February 2010 Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine. "This new study is game-changing," said Sarah Brown of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy.
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