New national report on Sexual and Reproductive Health of Teens and Young Adults

From the Centers For Disease Control, CDC, report on Sexual and Reproductive Health of Teens and Young Adults released on July 16, 2009:

Although the sexual risk behaviors and negative health outcomes tended to increase with age, the youngest age group – youth 10-14 years of age – were also affected:

•An estimated 16,000 pregnancies were reported among females in this age group in 2004.
•Approximately 17,000 young people in this age group were reported to have a sexually transmitted infection in 2006.
•During 2004-2006, 30,000 females in this age group visited a hospital emergency department because of a nonfatal sexual assault injury.
•Approximately one third of adolescents had not received instruction on methods of birth control before age 18.