The New Hampshire Public Health Association (NHPHA) holds that age appropriate, consensual sexual expression is normal, healthy human behavior. In order to assist individuals to maintain their sexual and reproductive health and reduce the risk of sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancy, the NHPHA supports efforts to provide:

• Access to comprehensive age appropriate, evidence-based information and education on sexual and reproductive health; and
• Access to high-quality, client-centered reproductive health care that recognizes the privacy of the patient/provider relationship.

Resources:

Johnson, Kay, et al., “Recommendations to Improve Preconception Health and Health Care,” Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Recommendations and Reports 55:RR06 (April 21, 2006) 1-23. http://www.cdc.gov/mmw...506a1.htm...1_e

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Trends in Reportable Sexually Transmitted Diseases in the United States, 2006; National Surveillance Data for Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, and Syphilis,” November 2007. http://www.cdc.gov/std.../trends2006.htm

McElderry D.H. and H. A. Omar, “Sex Education in the Schools: What Role Does It Play?,” International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health 15:1 (January  2003), 3-9.
 
Majer , L.S., J. S. Santelli, and K, Coyle,  “Adolescent Reproductive Health: Roles for School Personnel  in Prevention and Early Intervention,” Journal of School Health 62:7 (September  1992) 294-7.

Mueller, T.E., L.E. Gavin, and A. Kulkarni, “The Association between Sex Education and Youth’s Engagement in Sexual Intercourse, Age at First Intercourse, and Birth Control Use at First Sex,” Journal of Adolescent Health  42:1 (January 2008) 89-96.