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Sex abstinence program languishing because of financial troubles

Published in Women's Health Weekly, March 4th, 2004

New Mexico teenagers are not getting education about abstaining from sex, because the state Health Department lost track of more than $500,000 for the program.

"There's really no excuse for it," said Health Secretary Patricia Montoya.

She said the program fell through the cracks when she transferred it from the behavioral health division to the public health division's family planning activities program.

New Mexico, which had the third-highest rate of teen pregnancy in the U.S. in 2002, received $518,368 from a federal program for abstinence education in the fiscal year that ended September 30, 2003, said Health Department...

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