THIS is OK. It would be nice if abstinence only

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https://www.guttmacher.org/journals/psrh/1996...us-schools

In an isolated rural South Carolina community, a comprehensive school and community campaign made condoms available through the school nurse.12 However, condom availability was not the focus of the program: Teachers, administrators and community leaders were given training in sexuality education; sex education was integrated into all grades in the schools; peer counselors were trained; the school nurse counseled students, provided male students with condoms and took female students to a family planning clinic; and local media, churches and other community organizations highlighted special events and reinforced the message of avoiding unintended pregnancy.

After the program was implemented, the pregnancy rate for 14-17-year-olds declined significantly for several years. After parts of the program ended (e.g., the school nurse was prevented from providing condoms and some teachers left the school), pregnancy rates returned to preprogram levels. Unfortunately, it is not known whether the changes in the pregnancy rate were related to chance variations, to the availability of condoms and transportation to nearby family planning clinics, or to other program components.

Of the 431 schools that we determined to have condom availability programs, nearly all offered condoms as part of a more comprehensive program, with program components such as counseling, sex education or HIV education, or other educational activities.

The breadth of these programs clearly demonstrates that when schools make condoms available to students, the provision of condoms is typically only part of a larger effort to reduce unprotected intercourse. The considerable and often heated debate about the provision of condoms may sometimes obscure these programs' comprehensiveness.

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