Condom Programs Don't Spur Sex, Study Says
Advocates for AIDS-prevention programs last week said they were counting on a new study to bolster efforts to make condoms widely available to students in schools.
But school officials in Chicago and New York City suggested that those advocates are likely to be disappointed.
The study, published last week in the Sept. 30 issue of the American Journal of Public Health , compares the rates of condom use and sexual activity among students in New York City, which offers condoms in public high schools, and in Chicago,...
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