- Albert Schweitzer
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by Jill Jordan Sieder
posted September 21, 2007
Georgia's teen birth rate is the eighth highest in the nation, but an after-school program in Milledgeville has a strong track record for keeping teens from becoming parents too soon.
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by David Bender
Posted September 21, 2007
Baker County's Health Care Center in Newton serves the county's 4,000 residents and is the nucleus of an innovative pilot program led by the Southwest Georgia Cancer Coalition to prevent cancer.
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by Valarie Edwards
Posted August 25, 2007
The latest figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that although Latinos make up only 14 percent of the U.S. population, they account for 20 percent of all new HIV infection cases. One program in northeast Georgia is trying to make a difference by teaching Latinas how to protect themselves and prevent AIDS infection.
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by Jill Jordan Sieder
Posted August 27, 2007
Teen birth rates in Georgia and in the U.S. are on the decline. Georgia, with the eighth highest rate in the country, counts more than half of its teens as sexually active, and one-third of Georgia girls get pregnant at least once. The Federal government has tried to reduce teen pregnancy by supporting abstinence-only sex education programs, but some experts say this approach may not be effective.
