Hispanic teenage students are more likely to engage in risky health behaviors, including drug use and attempted suicide, as compared to their white or black counterparts, U.S. health officials said Wednesday.

Black and white students are reporting less sexual activity, using fewer drugs and smoking fewer cigarettes than those in years past, a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found

A study released by the Guttmacher Institute said almost half of pregnancies across the U.S. are accidents.

Although birth control devices and information are widely available, almost 50 percent of America's annual 6 million pregnancies are unintended

Some AIDS expert have recently said that condoms and testing for HIV are not the solution to eliminating the disease in Africa and are just a waste of money, while others say that doing those things has helped but there is a need to do more.

An estimated 22.5 million people in Africa had HIV at the end of 2007. Health experts say about 1.7 million new people became sick with HIV last year while the disease killed 1.6 million people during the same period

A recent study determined that should current trends persist, Australia's state of Victoria will witness a 75 percent increase in the number of HIV infections in the next seven years.

Scientists from the National Center in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research drew their conclusions from statistics pointing to a rise in unprotected sex, coupled with the increase in the number of sexually-transmitted disease infections among homosexual men. The data was gathered from research beginning in 1999

Germany's Left Wing party wants the federal government to distribute contraceptives to indigent Germans to let them enjoy having sex without running the risk of pregnancy. The proposal aims to curb the rising number of child births among women from the lowest-income bracket.

Katja Kipping, deputy chair of the Left Party, told Spiegel Online, "Poverty is overshadowing people's love lives." She added the indigent women are too poor to even afford to buy a birth control pill or IUD