CDC’s director, Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, on polio eradication.
(From CDC)
We are bundling up like these SHETLAND PONIES IN CARDIGANS and heading out.
Thank you, Waldo Jaquith.
From a book of photographs and essays about London by Chicago-based writer and photographer Brian Leli. Explaining the project on his website,...
…I’ll keep on saying it; Senator Bernie Sanders is great!
…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?
Um I’ve never found putting a condom on to be a “hassle” am I doing it wrong or are other people just lazy?
I bolded the part above because I think it really demonstrates the political climate surrounding abortion,...
It’s to be expected, really, with many adolescents learning only abstinence, as a method of birth control, rather than...