By LAURAN NEERGAARD
AP Medical Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Nearly half of high school
students say they've had sex, yet progress has stalled in getting them
to use condoms to protect against the AIDS virus, government researchers
reported Tuesday.
Today, four of every 10 new HIV infections occur in people younger
than 30, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention _
and the teen years, just as many youths become sexually active, are key
for getting across the safe-sex message.
Using a long-standing survey of high school students' health, the CDC
tracked how teen sexual behavior has changed over 20 years. The results
are decidedly mixed.
About 60 percent of sexually active high school students say they
used condoms the last time they had sex, researchers said at the
International AIDS Conference. That's an increase from the 46 percent
who were using condoms in 1991.
"This is good news," said Dr. Kevin Fenton, director of CDC's HIV prevention center. But, "we need to do a lot more."
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