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The Department of Human Services is currently
seeking proposals from qualified collaborative entities to provide
comprehensive adolescent pregnancy prevention projects for the Community
Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention (CAPP) program of the Iowa Department
of Human Services (Department).
To access the Request for Proposals (RFP),
go here
> and pull down “Human Services” from the drop-down
menu.
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The first-ever congressional oversight hearing
focusing on domestic abstinence-only programs was held on April
23, 2008. The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform,
chaired by Rep. Henry Waxman, held the hearing titled “Domestic
Abstinence-Only Programs: Assessing the Evidence.”
Testimonies by Dr. John Santelli and Shelby Knox can
be found here. FutureNet submitted a statement for the
record for the hearing.
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Adolescent women have a high rate of sexually
transmitted infections, and preventing these diseases needs to be
an important public health goal, according
to a paper presented by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
researchers at the April 2008 National STD Prevention Conference.
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