Mexico City Launches Campaign to Hand Out 20 Million Condoms on International Youth Day Sofia Vazquez-Mellado - LifeSiteNews.com
go to original August 30, 2013

MEXICO CITY – On International Youth Day, Mexico City’s Chief of Government, Miguel Ángel Mancera, launched a new campaign, titled “Sex with Responsibility,” to distribute one million sex-ed books and up to 20 million condoms every year.

Armando Ahued Ortega, Health Department Secretary for the Mexican capital, explained the city was taking these measures because the age of initiation to sexual activity has dropped significantly in the past years.

“In Mexico City the average age in which young people start sexual activity is lower that 15. Thirty-six in every thousand pregnant women are teenagers. From January to July this year we have tended to 19,646 births in which the mothers were between 10 and 19 years old; 598 of those were 10 to 14 years old,” said the secretary.

As well, from January to June this year, at least 1,928 new cases of infections related to STDs have been reported in men and women between 10 and 19 years of age.

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