Title: STD Rates
Producer: Emily Halevy
Feed: CWKN #382, April 23, 2008
Time: 1:35
SUGGESTED LEAD: THE NUMBERS ARE STAGGERING.  3– POINT-2 MILLION TEENAGE GIRLS IN AMERICA HAVE A SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE.  WHY ARE SO MANY YOUNG GIRLS INFECTED … AND WHAT CAN PARENTS DO?  CONNECT WITH KIDS HAS THE STORY.
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SOT: “Kimberly”, 17 years old (:00)
“I didn’t decide to have sex, it just happened.”

NARR: SHE DOESN’T WANT US TO USE HER NAME BUT SHE SAYS THE FIRST TIME SHE HAS SEX, SHE DIDN’T USE PROTECTION.  (:06)

SUPER: “Kimberly”, 17 years old (:12)
“I could have anything right now, and this is how easy it is to get these diseases.”

NARR: DID SHE GET AN STD THAT FIRST TIME?

THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL REPORTS THAT ONE IN FOUR TEEN GIRLS HAS AN S-T-D.

EVEN MORE STARTLING: HALF OF ALL AFRICAN-AMERICAN TEEN GIRLS ARE INFECTED.

EXPERTS SAY IN MANY U-S HOUSEHOLDS, PARENTS JUST AREN’T TEACHING THEIR KIDS ABOUT SEX. (:18)

SUPER: Zina Age, MSW, STD Prevention Advocate (:35)
“think it’s very hard to talk about issues surrounding HIV, surrounding STDs.  They’re not teaching them how to say no, they’re just teaching them not to do it.  They’re not empowering them to stand up for themselves.”

NARR: SHE SAYS IF KIDS CAN SEE A PRODUCTIVE FUTURE FOR THEMSELVES, THEY’RE MORE LIKELY TO PROTECT THAT FUTURE. (:05)

SOT: Zina Age, MSW, STD Prevention Advocate (:55)
“They don’t have the tools to know that at 16 I don’t get pregnant, that at 16 I go to college or when I graduate.  They don’t have any role models to show that this actually take place.  And that’s the part that’s scary.  Specifically in the hood, specifically in rural areas.”

NARR:  THIS GIRL WAS LUCKY.  SHE DIDN’T HAVE AN S-T-D.  BUT SHE LEARNED A LESSON. (:04)

SOT: “Kimberly”, 17 years old (1:16)
“I used to be afraid of telling my boyfriend, can you please put a condom on? In the moment, you’re just letting everything flow and it’s stopping everything—can you go put a condom on? It’s kinda hard to do that.  But now I actually stop and think about what I’m doing.”

NARR:  I’M COLLIN SIEDOR FOR CONNECT WITH KIDS. (:03)

SUGGESTED TAG:   THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL RECOMMENDS A CHLAMYDIA SCREENINGS FOR ALL SEXUALLY ACTIVE WOMEN UNDER 25 AS WELL AS THE HPV VACCINE FOR GIRLS 11-26.  FOR MORE INFORMATION ON S-T-D’S LOG ONTO WWW.CONNECTWITHKIDS.COM.