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Dr. John B. Jemmott III, the University of Pennsylvania professor, who led a study of middle-school students that found for the first time that abstinence-only education helped to delay their sexual initiation is already beginning to shake up the longstanding debate over how best to prevent teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.  The study lead to the program titled Promoting Health Among Teens. Efficacy of abstince only intervention journal article.

Almost all U.S. teens have had formal sex education, but only about two-thirds have been taught about birth control methods, according to a new government report released Wednesday. Many teens apparently are not absorbing those lessons — other recent data shows that after years of steady decline, the teen birth rate rose from 2005 to 2007. It dipped again in 2008, to about 10% of all births. Click Here to view the rest of the article.