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Seminole

County Statistics
County Population: 
401,619
Number of Teen births, Girls Age 10-19, 2006: 
343
Average Number of Reported New AIDS Cases: 
45
Average Number of Reported New HIV Cases : 
37
Number of Reported Chlamydia Cases: 
803
Number of Reported Gonorrhea Cases: 
449
Planned Parenthood Programs: 

Partnership with Devereux Chuluota; PPGO is contracted to do weekly human sexuality groups with the teens living at this residential foster care facility.

Seminole High School; PPGO educators do presentations for the Child Development course at this high school. Seminole County is an abstinence-only until marriage high school and PPGO educators are only permitted to present on topics such as pregnancy and parenting. Contraception is excluded from this curriculum.

Abstinence Only Programs Taught: 

Seminole County Public Schools are abstinence-only until marriage. State and federally funded agencies such as crisis pregnancy centers are invited into middle and high schools to do presentations containing medically inaccurate information.

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