Unprotected Sex

THE PROBLEM AND ITS IMPACT AT THE COMMUNITY LEVEL Although unprotected sex seems to mostly impact adolescents at the individual level, it is also a very important public health issue at the community level. Referring back to an earlier example about how a young woman’s life is impacted through pregnancy, it can also impact that young woman’s family and community. According to the World Health Organization (2014), “a girl with little or no education due to dropping out of school has fewer skills and opportunities to find a job. This can have an economic cost with a country losing out on the annual income a young woman would have earned over her lifetime, if she had not had an early pregnancy.” Because the young woman dropped out of school to raise her child, the economy is losing an individual who could have potentially made a significant advancement for our nation. Now, instead of progressing our nation further, the young woman could possibly go on welfare, allowing the community to be accountable for her, which would ultimately hurt the economy. HIV and AIDS are a very widespread disease throughout the community. As soon as a young adolescent has unprotected sex, they allow themselves to give this infection to an …show more content…
According to Coyle (2001), the program “seeks to motivate behavioral change by increasing students’ knowledge about HIV and STDs as well as promoting more positive norms and attitudes toward abstinence and condom use at the student, school, and community levels.” To achieve these outcomes, Safer Choices has constructed a two-year, 21-session school-based program aiming to reduce the effects of unprotected sex between high-school students with a set of program goals and