I'm Still Not Tired - Larkin Callaghan

Larkin Callaghan recently completed her doctorate in health behavior and public health education at Columbia, focusing on women's health and global health development. With research and program experience in HIV and sexual health, social network building, trauma and violence, drug and alcohol abuse, and how socioeconomic status and history of abuse contribute to health and social mobility, she specializes in women's and adolescent health, population health, communication and social marketing and the health of vulnerable populations - and how they relate to one another. She also works as a UN Correspondent for MediaGlobal, covering issues affecting the least developed countries, with a not-exclusive focus on global health. She posts about public health, sociology and social justice, human rights, research, and gender. She manages the Reproductive Health Daily Tumblr and is a fellow in Health Communication and Epidemiology at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health, where she writes and uses social and new media to promote research that focuses on health disparities, access and rights. She’s an avid runner and a California loyalist, and also posts longer opinion pieces on I'm Not Tired Yet at https://larkincallaghan.wordpress.com/.
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…But it’s more nuanced and complicated than that.

“More than half of young men and a quarter of young women who participated in a 2009 survey displayed serious gaps in knowledge about common contraceptive methods.” This isn’t too surprising to reproductive health advocates, but the further detailed breakdown is interesting:

“Sixty-nine percent of young women and 45% of young men were highly committed to avoiding pregnancy. Some 25% thought that using condoms every time one has sex is a hassle, 60% underestimated the effectiveness of oral contraceptives and 40% held the fatalistic view that using birth control does not matter. The more strongly men and women agreed that regular condom use is “too much of a hassle,” the more likely they were to expect to have unprotected sex.”

What I found particularly valuable in these findings was the specific articulation of the influence of peer behavior, which as we know, for adolescents is hugely important. What are your thoughts?

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    Um I’ve never found putting a condom on to be a “hassle” am I doing it wrong or are other people just lazy?
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    I bolded the part above because I think it really demonstrates the political climate surrounding abortion,...
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    It’s to be expected, really, with many adolescents learning only abstinence, as a method of birth control, rather than...
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