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Chicago schools to offer free condoms to students as young as 10-years-old
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When Chicago Public Schools resume late next month, students – as young as 10 – will have condoms available to them.
CPS said the condoms will be provided at no cost by the Chicago Department of Public Health "in an ongoing effort to mitigate the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV infection, and unintended pregnancy" among students. In an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times, CPS’ top doctor Kenneth Fox acknowledged that the decision will likely ruffle some feathers, but said it was necessary to safeguard students’ health. "When you don’t have those protections and don’t make those resources available then bad stuff happens to young people," he said. "You have elevated risks of sexually transmitted infections, of unintended pregnancies, and that’s very preventable stuff."More Related News