D.C. schools want teens to know
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School system to offer STD tests to teens
This fall, the District of Columbia will begin offering tests for sexually transmitted diseases to all of its public high school students, expanding a pilot program that uncovered a significant amount of infected teenagers, the Washington Post reports.
What D.C. school officials are doing is nothing new—school systems in New York, Chicago, New Orleans, and Baltimore, among others, either perform screenings for STDs or are preparing pilot programs—but the testing program is a vital step in the city's effort to arrest its growing AIDS rate, which is the highest in the nation. AIDS activists are particularly concerned about STDs because they increase the risk of contracting HIV.
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