Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Sign up According to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control ...

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 ...

Since the 1970s, public support for sex education has grown, spurred by concerns over teen pregnancy and later, HIV/AIDS. Research from the Guttmacher Institute shows that today, 38 states and D.C.

The committee concludes that prevention of STDs is technically feasible today in the United States, but an effective national system for STD prevention currently does not exist, and, as a result, STDs ...

IN THE NEXT school year, District public high school students will learn more than the three R's. They're going to learn about and be tested for STDs: sexually transmitted diseases. We applaud the ...

The following are brief descriptions of innovative programs for providing STD-related clinical services that were visited by the committee during its site visits to the Chicago and Atlanta areas in ...