HIV Prevention and Condoms - Should Schools be Involved?

About 16 percent of Americans between the ages of 14 and 49 are infected with genital herpes, making it one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases, U.S. health officials said on Tuesday. Maybe this is the reason that why there are more than 680,000 members on the STD dating site pozmingle. Hope all the people take care and find love.

I have HIV and I am an engineer who works for the largest STD dating and support site STDslove. com. I have to tell you a secret, you can choose not to believe me. But the truth is that this site has more than 1,880,000 members and about 80% members are good looking in my estimation. Unfortunately, STD rates soar worldwide and most people with STDs don't even know that they have them. The government should grant more money for STD education to lower the rates of STD transmission.

Eli--Very well said.

It's amazing to me how successful all the progressive and enlightened programs have improved schools over the last 20 - 30 years. As parents, we no longer have to worry about our child be so horribly abused through the use of corporal punishment. No discipline for MY child. No sir! Also we no longer have to deal with that prayer thing. God is out of the schools so MY child does not have to deal with the extreme humiliation of standing quietly while others pray to the God of their understanding - they just don't understand that we are more accepting of others today. They'll get over it. And of course we don't have to worry about speaking a common language any more. That was always such an inane concept anyway. Who needs communication? And thank GOODNESS they got rid of that Pledge of Allegiance crap! Why in the world should MY child need to be taught that by recognizing the common thread - the glue - of our society of ANY nation loyalty is established. It was if we OWED this country something for Christ sake! Another progressive improvement is making MY child feel better about himself through the elimination of competition. There are no losers, we're ALL winners! No need to strive to be our best, just feel good! After all, if we don't succeed in school or later in life, somebody will be there to take care of us! These are only SOME of the great benefits of progressive improvement in schools. Sure, we have some MINOR problems we have to deal with as a result of these insightful steps. Graduation rates below 50%. Widespread violence and drug use. Falling to 9th in educational success worldwide. More division by race than EVER before. Lack of a concept of personal responsibility. Not much work ethic, but that's a dying concept anyhow. No, we are much better off now. Besides, the minor problems listed above will go away. We just need to throw more money at it next year! And condoms.

We have to face reality and remove emotions in regard to condoms in the school. Yes they should be avaliable to students. Kids are going to have sex and if we can help prevent the spread of STD, and HIV then why are we not doing so? I believe having an open relationship at home is essential; however many children do not have that. If we can aid in a decrease of HIV we need to do whatever we can. Everyone wants to think that it is not their child or it will never happen to them; however that is a fantasy. So Rochester open you eyes and lets help our children.

Since when is it the school district's responsibility to reduce the # of pregnancies or the spread of sexually-transmitted diseases? Isn't that one of the jobs a parent agrees to take on when they themselves become a parent? If the parent chooses not to educate their child about the risk associated with having sex at such a young age, then let them provide the false-sense of "security" & provide the condoms, not the school district.

Yes! People need to wake up! Kids are going to have sex if you like it or not. The only way to effectively prevent unwanted pregnancies and HIV infections is to use condoms. Providing condoms to students is much cheeper than paying for teen moms and their babies or paying for HIV treatment!

Sorry..I didn't mean to post twice. I had an issue with my system, my first post didn't show at first.

I don't think that schools should be involved with this. Maybe a survey should be MAILED..not sent home with chidren, asking parents if it's O.K. to give their child/ren condoms. I would be upset if my child/ren came home with condems, because to me that's telling them that it's ok to have sex as long as you use them, while we're at home discussing God's word about abtinence until marriage etc, along with morals and values. OK, a condom MIGHT prevent children/adults from getting HIV/AIDS, but what if breaks...what if they don't use it? I wouldn't object to Health being added as a requirement to the curriculum these days. It should be taught with a scared straight approach.

@mskmbp - and a heck of a lot cheaper than a teen parent.