Abstinence Awareness Week Fact Sheet Sources

·         1 in 13 teen girls 15 to 19 years old gets pregnant each year in DC, and in many DC communities, nearly 60% of all girls will get pregnant at least once.

          Sources.  www.teenpregnancydc.org, and National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, Faith Matters;  How African-American Faith Communities Can Help Prevent Teen Pregnancy

·         As many as 1 in 20 adults in DC is estimated to be infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and over 9000 District residents are living with AIDS, which is almost 1 in 50 adults.

          Sources: DC Dept. of Health; HIV/AIDS Administration as cited at http://www.wwc.org/hiv_aids_services/stats-dc.htm and report by the DC Appleseed Center & Hogan & Hartson, LLP, August 2005, p 2.

        Population statistics from Monograph: District of Columbia State Health Profile, December, 2003 State Center for Health Statistics Administration.

·       Almost 70% of new AIDS diagnoses among women are among Black women:
Source: ABC News 'Out of Control: AIDS in Black America at abcnews.go.com/story?id=2346857&page=1

•The majority of Wasngton Dc high school students have never had sex.

Source: CDC Youth Risk Behaviour Surveillance System 2005 online at http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/yrbss

·         Girls who experiment with drugs or sex are two to three times more likely to be depressed than those who don’t.?

Source: Hallfors DD, et al. Which comes first in adolescence — sex and drugs or depression? Am J Prev Med 29 (3), 2005. as cited  at http://www.cfah.org/ (Center for the Advancement of Health)

·        Boys and girls who are sexually active are also much more likely to drink alcohol, smoke cigarettes, smoke marijuana, be suspended from school, or be arrested?

Source:  Donald Orr, “Premature Sexual Activity as and Indicator of Psychosexual Risk, Pediatrics, 87:2 Feb. 1991, 141-7, as cited in Free Teens HIV/AIDS, STDs & Pregnancy Prevention Program Manual.

 ·        Condoms do not provide any protection against HPV (human Papilloma virus, the primary cause of cervical cancer) or trichomonas vaginalis, and only 50% protection (at best) against genital herpes, gonorrhea and syphilis and Chlamydia?

Source:  Sex, Condoms and STD’s:  What we Now Know; The Medical Institute for Sexual Health: 

·        During one year, over 1300 District of Columbia teens and preteens were diagnosed with Chlamydia, a sexually transmitted disease that can lead to sterility if not treated.

Source:  Washington DC State Center for Health Statistics Administration

·         Studies reveal that even in high-crime inner-city neighborhoods, well over 90 percent of children from safe, stable, two-parent homes do not become delinquents

Source:  Father Facts Third Edition, Wade F. Horn, The National Fatherhood Initiative, p. 90.