-The National Coalition To Support Sexuality Education

The coalition above is made up of over 50 organizations. Many of these organizations are well noted as role models in today's society. The quote shows why there needs to be condom availability in schools. Children are having sex earlier that ever, babies are having babies, and worst of all people are dying. Students are embarrassed to go buy condoms, they are too expensive, or they do not know where to buy them. Many people dispute distributing condoms in the school. Sexually active teens are at the highest risk for contracting HIV. We must provide children with condoms if we want to protect society

The HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report shows that from July 1993 to June 1994 there was 439, AIDS cases in 13 to 19 year old. 52 percent contracted the virus from unprotected sex, 47 percent were girls having unprotected sex. The report

In my essay, I only touched on teen pregnancy. The problem of teenagers having babies is a sad thing today, and I do not want to lessen the stigma of it. I do, although, think that the problem of AIDS is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, problem society has ever faced. In the fact based book And The Band Played On, the author talks about the cluster study done to see if the disease was, in fact, sexually transmitted. In this study there was

The whole concept does not make sense to me. If a student could not get condoms from home, they would get them from school. If students could get condoms from home, they would not have to get them from school. Having parental consent forms just makes it even harder for all of the students to get condoms. The student whose parent did sign the form would have to show ID, which would deter many students. Students whose parents did not sign the consent form would have to go to a drug store to buy them. Most drug stores have the condoms behind glass so you need to ask to get them, that is a very embarrassing experience for a 14 or 15 year old. Also, the condoms the schools have are donated by the manufacture, and they are the correct condoms that not only keep sperm from penetrating the condom, but HIV as well. Students are getting the safest condoms for free. If students have to buy condoms they have to pay, on the average, one dollar per condom, a dollar each time they want to have sex. Students might buy the cheaper condoms which probably will also be cheep in quality, or worse, not buy them at all.

also shows that there were 844 20 to 24 year olds that developed AIDS in the same time period, 62 percent were from unprotected sex, and 51 percent were woman who have had unprotected sex. AIDS can lay dormant from anywhere between two to ten years, even longer. Given that statistic, most of the subjects in the older age group were infected in high school.

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