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At the Center to Aid Migrants in Exodus shelter, would-be immigrants to the United States shared stories of violence at the hands of human smugglers working for drug cartels.
“You used to be able to walk across” the border, said Javier Corazon, 48, who says he lived in Tucson for decades before being deported two years ago. “Now you never know what’s going to happen. They may leave you, beat you or worse.”
The 30 or so beds at the shelter in this small Mexican town near the Arizona border were filled mostly with Mexicans and a few Central Americans, some of whom remain determined to cross the border.”*
*From: http://www.sfgate.com
Traducido: usando Google o Altavista/Babel Fish
A report released by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) concluded that an alarming number of teen girls in the U.S. are infected with a sexually transmitted disease (STD). The study of over 800 subjects found that 26% of teen girls overall have STDs with black girls at the most danger of infection with 48%. Regarding Latinas, only Mexican-Americans were considered in the study; their rate of infection was approximately 1 in 5.
The CDC’s findings show that sex education programs are in need of retooling, according to several experts interviewed by the Associated Press:
“This is pretty shocking,” said Dr. Elizabeth Alderman, an adolescent medicine specialist at Montefiore Medical Center’s Children’s Hospital in New York.
“To talk about abstinence is not a bad thing,” but teen girls — and boys too — need to be informed about how to protect themselves if they do have sex, Alderman said…
“Those numbers are certainly alarming,” said sex education expert Nora Gelperin, who works with a teen-written Web site called sexetc.org. She said they reflect “the sad state of sex education in our country.”
“Sexuality is still a very taboo subject in our society,” she said. “Teens tell us that they can’t make decisions in the dark and that adults aren’t properly preparing them to make responsible decisions.”
Ladies & Gentlemen WE MUST TAKE CARE OF OUR BODIES!! I KNOW SOMETIMES OR BETTA YET ALL THE TIME WE WANNA HUMP GOOD LOOKIN PEOPLE BUT DAMN IF YOU GONNA TAP IT THEN WRAP IT!! IT DOESN’T HELP THAT WE ALREADY HAVEN ENOUGH ON OUR PLATE TO FIGHT AGAINST NOW STD’S AMONGST THE MAJORITY OF OUR WORKING CLASS AS A MAJOR ISSUE WITH POVERTY, SOCIAL ISSUES AND MORE. PLEASE BE SMART ABOUT WHAT YOU DO AND HOW YOU DO IT! THE MORE WE SMARTER WE ARE ABOUT WHAT WE DO THE MORE ISSUES WE WILL SOLVE AND THE FASTER WE WILL BECOME CLOSER TO ELIMINATING OUR CURRENT DOMSETIC PROBLEMS.
Sources- New York Times, Bloomberg, Xinhua, Associated Press
Image- BBC News (“HPV, which can cause cancer, was found to be the most common STD”)
Shoutout @ The Latin Americanist
