More cringe than the most awkward of birds-and-the-bees talks was a December decision by a North East Independent School District health advisory panel charged with shaping the health and sex ...

The board of education agreed Monday night that an education and testing program focused on sexually transmitted diseases should continue at the high school. The board did not vote, but no members ...

Brereton-Moore, 43, of Galloway Township, works as a full-time labor and delivery nurse at the hospital. She started making health presentations to students at Charter Tech High School earlier this ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the importance of programs that test for communicable diseases and help prevent their spread. These same lessons should be applied to sexually transmitted diseases, ...

SHEBOYGAN - Noah Bartelt, a 2019 Sheboygan North High School graduate, struggled with seeing himself in curriculum when he was a middle schooler in Sheboygan. “I didn't even know that being gay, being ...

WITH sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) becoming a growing concern in schools and higher education institutions (HEIs), academics say more must be done to correct misconceptions, ensure students ...

Pilar Zuniga was teaching a four-day puberty class to a group of Alameda County fifth-graders recently when a school administrator made a special request: no pictures, please. Specifically, no ...

In recent months, the concept of "comprehensive sex education" has been a popular point of discussion among legislators, school districts, sex education advocates and parents nationwide. These ...

MANKATO — Year after year Blue Earth County ranks highly in an undesirable metric. The county’s chlamydia rate is consistently within the top five among all Minnesota counties in annual sexually ...

Bexar County has an STD problem. And it’s not going away anytime soon. Texas’ Department of State Health Services documented 18,125 cases of syphilis, chlamydia and gonorrhea in the county during 2017 ...