The Hidden Epidemic Confronting Sexually Transmitted Diseases (1997) / Chapter Skim
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APPENDIX I
APPENDIX I
Pages 394-399
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In addition to its main health center, West End Medical Centers operates health centers in several public housing projects and communities, including an AIDS clinic in an inner-city high-rise apartment building, and serves approximately 28,000 residents. The centers also operates a school-based clinic at a local high school, which provides a full range of episodic care for teenagers.
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STDrelated services are provided through regular primary health care services rather than through a separate STD clinic. All persons seeking family planning and obstetrics services are offered STD testing.
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The Young Adult Clinic was established to reduce the risk of HIV infection and other STDs among Hispanic youth, specifically Puerto Rican youth. The clinic provides comprehensive health services, including STD screening, HIV counseling and testing, pregnancy testing, condom distribution, and family planning services.
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The Columbus Health Department operates separate clinics for teenagers that provide comprehensive health services such as prenatal care, STD screening, and pro- and postHIV counseling and testing. In general, the private physicians in the community
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The director of the program has personally approached all the private sector providers in the area to arrange a public/private partnership. The Emory/Grady Teen Services Program Atlanta, GA The Emory/Grady Teen Services Program, a collaboration between Emory University and Grady Memorial Hospital, is a nationally acclaimed program that seeks to provide continuity of care for adolescents at risk for unintended pregnancy.
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Results of evaluations of the school education component of the program indicate that teens who have participated in the program are five times more likely to postpone sexual activity in the eighth grade, and the rate of initiation of sexual intercourse is reduced by a third through the ninth grade (Howard and McCabe, 1990~. In the service/clinical program, 80 percent of young mothers remain pregnancy-free during their teenage years.
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