Contraceptive Use and Pregnancy Risk Among U.S. High School Students, 1991?2003
Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive HealthPublished 1 June 2006
John Santelli, Brian Morrow, John E. Anderson, Laura Lindberg
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Improvement in the use of contraceptives by sexually active high school students during the 1990s is encouraging, and programs need to encourage contraceptive use among teenagers who do not use it and to stress consistent and correct use among those who do.
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Improvement in the use of contraceptives by sexually active high school students during the 1990s is encouraging. To sustain this trend, programs need to encourage contraceptive use among teenagers who do not use it and to stress consistent and correct use among those who do.
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