Teen Pregnancy and STD/HIV Data

National

Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) is a leader in advancing sexual and reproductive health in the U.S. They provide research, policy analysis, and public education.
www.guttmacher.org/statecenter/washington.html

Check out AGI's table maker — an easy step-by-step way to generate state statistics for a wide array of topics.
www.guttmacher.org/statecenter/tablemaker/index.html?statecenter=nostate

The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy seeks to reduce the rate of teen pregnancy by one-third between 2006 and 2015, and reports on teen pregnancy trends.
www.teenpregnancy.org/default.asp

Center For Disease Control (CDC): Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS )
apps.nccd.cdc.gov/yrbss/

The YRBSS home page provides articles, reports, fact sheets — as well as detailed information on the YRBSS methods and questions used in their instruments.
www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/yrbs/index.htm

National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) involves detailed interviews with a representative sample of women and men in the United States. Their latest survey and results are located at www.cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg.htm and contains detailed reports as well as brief fact sheets. Child Trends: Adolescent sexual behavior
www.childtrends.org/_portalcat.cfm

Washington State and Local

Washington State Center for Health Statistics. This office summarizes data on abortion and pregnancy rate and birth statistics by race/ethnicity, age, county.
www.doh.wa.gov/ehsphl/chs/chs-data/main.htm

Washington State Department of Health (DOH), Division of Community and Family Health is the overarching agency that addresses WA state's community wellness and prevention, infectious disease and reproductive health, and maternal and child health.
www.doh.wa.gov/cfh/cfh.htm

Washington State DOH Child and Adolescent Health website contains Teen Health Fact Sheets on all health topics for use with general audiences.
www.doh.wa.gov/cfh/mch/cahcp/default.htm

WA DOH's family planning/reproductive health program provides practical guides on services within the state.
www.doh.wa.gov/cfh/FPRH/default.htm

Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS)— an ongoing mail/telephone survey of women who have recently given birth. New mothers answer questions about their behaviors and experiences before, during, and shortly after pregnancy.
www.doh.wa.gov/cfh/PRAMS/Default.htm

HIV/STD Data

National

The CDC Divisions of HIV/AIDS Prevention and STD Prevention website offers good starting points for national and state news and information on HIV/STD data — for adolescents and young adults, as well as other populations.
www.cdc.gov/hiv/dhap.htm
www.cdc.gov/std/default.htm

Washington State and Local

Washington Department of Health (DOH) STD program. They issue annual STD reports that include morbidity data and incidence rates by county for Washington State's legally reportable sexually transmitted diseases. The site also has STD fact sheets on many types of infections (chlamydia, gonnorhea, herpes, warts, Hepatitis B, HPV, syphilis, and trichomoniasis). County profiles.
www.doh.wa.gov/cfh/STD/default.htm

Division of Community and Family Health is the HIV/AIDS prevention and education services' statistics page.
www.doh.wa.gov/cfh/HIV_AIDS/Prev_Edu/Statistics.htm