This resource provides information to help students understand the risk of HIV among youth.
The risk for HIV for most youth begins when they start having sex or start injecting drugs. HIV causes a serious infection that, without treatment, leads to AIDS and early death. All youth should know how HIV is transmitted and prevented, understand what puts them at risk for HIV, and be tested if they are at risk. This article provides information on how HIV affects youth in the United States.
This resource provides information to help students understand how to properly wash their hands to help prevent germs and sickness.
If you like recreational activities that involve wheels, concrete or asphalt, then protect your brain by wearing a helmet.
To help ensure the health and safety of young athletes, CDC developed the Heads Up: Concussion in Youth Sports initiative to offer information about concussions to coaches, parents, and athletes involved in youth sports. The Heads Up initiative provides important information on preventing, recognizing, and responding to a concussion.
This article provides information on how to prevent heat exhaustion during athletic activities.
This article discusses the dangers of hookahs including hookah smoke and cancer.
Ready to Race? Answer TRUE or FALSE to each statement. For each answer you get right, you'll clear a hurdle on your way to the finish line. If you're wrong, you'll have a little trouble clearing the hurdle, but stay on track ? you can still finish the race! This interactive resource gives students the opportunity to see how well they understand the facts about staying healthy and physically active.
Every day, almost 30 people in the United States die in motor vehicle crashes that involve an alcohol-impaired driver. This amounts to one death every 48 minutes. The annual cost of alcohol-related crashes totals more than $51 billion. This resource provides effective measures that can help prevent injuries and deaths from alcohol-impaired driving.
This resource provides information on how foodborne diseases are an important public health problem in the United States. It includes incidence and trends related to foodborne diseases.
It's tough to stay alert in classes all day, do stuff after school, see your friends, and get through all your homework at night. Who has time to add physical activity to this list? It?s a weird but true fact: being active actually helps you feel more awake and have the energy to do all the things you want to do every day. Activity helps you feel better, stay alert, and deal with stress. Plus, it helps you sleep better?so you?ve tackled two parts of the energy equation at once. This resource allows students to check their knowledge on physical activity and nutrition.
This interactive resource provides students the opportunity to give characters advice when faced with stressful or pressured situations.
This article helps students understand when they should wash their hands and the right way to wash their hands.
This article includes information to help students understand the importance of safety measures when playing outside.
Do you know where nasty things like bacteria and fungi may be hiding? C'mon in to the locker room to see what's lurking under foot and behind closed doors. This resource provides students with information on preventing disease.
This article discusses the program that assisted the state of North Carolina with keeping tobacco out of their schools.
This article discusses how the HPV vaccine may be helping lower HPV infection rates in teen girls.
Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) refers to infection of the uterus (womb), fallopian tubes (tubes that carry eggs from the ovaries to the uterus) and other reproductive organs that causes symptoms such as lower abdominal pain. It is a serious complication of some sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), especially chlamydia and gonorrhea.
This 20-page, easy-to-read illustrated booklet discusses the major content of the 2012 Surgeon General's report in plain language. It is designed to help parents, teachers, policy makers, health care professionals, and other concerned adults understand the importance of the report and how they can take a stand to protect young people from the devastating effects of tobacco use.
This resource provides facts about rabies including how to prevent rabies and what to do if you think you might have been exposed to rabies.