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Doctors, nurses, and other health care providers can #
- Encourage teens not to have sex
Parents, guardians, and caregivers can #
- Talk with their teens about sex, including:
- encouraging them not to have sex.
- encouraging them to use effective birth control to prevent pregnancy, along with condoms to protect against sexually transmitted diseases.
- Check with their health plan(s) about coverage of preventive services. Birth control and counseling may be available for teens at no out-of-pocket cost.
Teens can #
- Choose not to have sex.
- Talk openly to parents or other trusted adults and ask how they can get birth control if they choose to be sexually active.
- Talk with a health care provider to learn about the best types of birth control for them, and use it and condoms correctly every time.
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