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Duryea, Philip J. Elias – 1992
New Mexico's teenage pregnancy rate ranks third in the nation. Among New Mexico's teenage women, birth rates are 31% higher than the national rate for the 15 to 17 age group and 30% higher for the 18 to 19 age group. The New Mexico Survivorship Study, a longitudinal investigation being conducted in an effort to reduce these figures, uses the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, American Indians, Early Parenthood, Minority Groups
Brown, Michael D. – The IHS Primary Care Provider, 1990
This document consists of two articles on sex education programs aimed at reducing sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and unintended pregnancies among American Indians. Both articles describe the problems of unwanted pregnancies and STDs, including acquired immune deficiency syndrome. During 1987, there were more than 3,000 live births to Native…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, American Indian Education, American Indians, Condoms