﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Tell Them! News</title><link>http://www.tellthemsc.org/news.aspx</link><description>The latest headlines and articles from Tell Them!.</description><item><title>Keep the Conversation Going With Teens About Sex </title><description>I must disagree with Elizabeth Hasselbeck on this issue, as she does not think that the rise in teen pregnancies is at all related to “abstinence only” education. </description><link>http://www.tellthemsc.org/news.aspx?article_id=428</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>WHO Guidelines Call for Prompt HIV Testing and Treatment of Newborns</title><description>Infants born to mothers who are HIV-positive should have their HIV status determined at birth or soon after, with a diagnosis of HIV infection confirmed within 4 to 6 weeks of age, so that treatment can be initiated as early as possible, according to new guidelines issued by the World Health Organization (WHO). The guidelines are available at on the WHO Web site.</description><link>http://www.tellthemsc.org/news.aspx?article_id=426</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Katie Couric's Notebook: HIV</title><description>Katie Couric's Notebook: HIV</description><link>http://www.tellthemsc.org/news.aspx?article_id=422</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>It works, but female condom neglected in anti-AIDS battle</title><description>Campaigners on Tuesday lamented the fact that the female condom, just as effective as its male equivalent, has failed to gain the profile it deserves in the fight against AIDS.</description><link>http://www.tellthemsc.org/news.aspx?article_id=423</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Pill Turns 50 What's Next for Contraception</title><description>The Pill turned 50 this year. So how has it changed women's lives and what's next for contraception. EmpowHer host Shay Pausa finds out.</description><link>http://www.tellthemsc.org/news.aspx?article_id=424</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Why Are We Still Funding Abstinence-Only Programming?</title><description>It seems you can’t keep a bad idea down. Even though the Obama administration has pledged that science will finally trump ideology when it comes to global AIDS prevention, we recently learned that U.S. funding for failed prevention programs is continuing. </description><link>http://www.tellthemsc.org/news.aspx?article_id=421</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Opening New Horizons on Faith-Based Sex Education</title><description>Since the 1960s, a sex education war has waged in school districts and state legislatures around the country. Schools seeking to be responsible in helping students learn how to protect themselves from unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections established medically accurate sex education programs. </description><link>http://www.tellthemsc.org/news.aspx?article_id=420</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bristol and Levi: Poster children for the dumbing down of America</title><description>Bristol Palin and her fiance, Levi Johnston, are what you get when you combine the religious right's dedication to abstinence as the only way to avoid teenage pregnancy, a celebrity culture that exalts and pays for these teenagers' dumb choices, and the contempt for education and "elitism" spouted throughout the country by Mama Grizzly Sarah Palin, who looks to be a much less happy mother of the bride-to-be than Hillary Clinton.</description><link>http://www.tellthemsc.org/news.aspx?article_id=425</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Damage From Binge-Drinking in Pregnancy Worsens With Age</title><description>Children of women 30 or older suffered greater harm from prenatal exposure to alcohol, researchers find</description><link>http://www.tellthemsc.org/news.aspx?article_id=427</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>10 Things Teens Want Other Teens to Know About Preventing Pregnancy</title><description>In the U.S., one in three girls gets pregnant by age 20. Knowing the facts can help you make the right choices for yourself.</description><link>http://www.tellthemsc.org/news.aspx?article_id=419</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>