General Information Links
Provides information regarding various medical signs, symptoms, and conditions.
Offers separate sites for parents, teens, kids, and educators. This website covers a wide variety of health information from pregnancy through teen years.
The American Social Health Association is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the health of individuals, families, and communities, with a focus on sexually transmitted diseases. They also offer a teen website, www.iwannaknow.org, and a website in Spanish www.quirosaber.org.
The Sexual Health Network is dedicated to providing easy access to sexuality information, education, support and other resources. Topics include men’s sexual health, women’s sexual health, love and relationships, sexuality education, sexually transmitted infections, and sexual resources.
The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy was founded in 1996 to work exclusively on decreasing teen pregnancy in America, and at the outset challenged the nation to reduce the teen pregnancy rate by one third over the next decade.
Visiting Nurse Services of Iowa Community Resource Directory provides an updated list of community resources (e.g. housing, food, mental health, etc.) throughout Polk and surrounding counties.
Provides assistance in locating community resources to Dallas County residents.
Sexually Transmitted Infection Sites
This site offers information on chlamydia and gonorrhea.
www.cdc.gov/diseasesconditions
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) offers a significant amount of information and printable handouts related to STD/STIs, including hepatitis and HIV.
AVERT is an international AIDS charity. Their website offers information on STD/STIs including pictures, statistics, testing, and prevention.
This is a federal website which offers HIV 101, describing the basics of the virus, transmission, and prevention.
Sites for Teens
This site is directed at young African-Americans, providing information regarding STD/STIs and teen pregnancy prevention. The website sells merchandise, as well as “The Official Condom of the Hip Hop Kulture.”
Advocates for Youth champions efforts that help young people make informed and responsible decisions about their reproductive and sexual health. Advocates believes it can best serve the field by boldly advocating for a more positive and realistic approach to adolescent sexual health.
Sex, etc. is a website on sexual health that is written by teens, for teens. There are blogs, forums and chat rooms where teens can interact. Topics include: relationships, dating violence, male and female health, birth control options, STD/STIs, LGBTQ issues, pregnancy, substance abuse, and body image. Also, in the case of a crisis, there is a long resource list available. They also produce a magazine of the same name.
MySistahs is a Web site created by and for young women of color to provide information and offer support on sexual and reproductive health issues through education and advocacy. Through monthly features, message boards, and online peer education, young women receive information on activism, culture and sexual health.
The American Social Health Association is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the health of individuals, families, and communities, with a focus on sexually transmitted diseases. They also offer a teen website, www.iwannaknow.org, and a website in Spanish www.quirosaber.org.
Sites for Parents
In the documentary, "Oral Sex Is the New Goodnight Kiss," girls as young as 11 years old talk about having sex, going to sex parties and – in some extreme situations – crossing into prostitution by exchanging sexual favors for money, clothes, or even homework and then still arriving home in time for dinner with the family.
Answer is a national organization dedicated to providing and promoting comprehensive sexuality education to young people and the adults who teach them. For 30 years, Answer, part of the Center for Applied Psychology at Rutgers University, has been committed to supplying resources, advocacy, training and solutions in support of honest and balanced sexuality education for young people and the adults in their lives.
Go Ask Alice! is the health question and answer Internet resource produced by the Alice!, Health Promotion Program at Columbia University — a division of Health Services at Columbia.
Tips for parents on how to talk with teens about sex.
Information on HPV vaccine
Find more information on Gardasil, the vaccine for HPV types 6, 11, 16, 18 go to or get more information at www.cdc.gov/std/hpv/STDFact-HPV-vaccine.htm
Information on Birth Control Methods
This is the company website, which contains extensive information about emergency contraception, including a Time Tool and Pharmacy Locator.
This is the company website for NuvaRing.
www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ByAudience/ForWomen/ucm118465.htm
FDA website containing information on all approved forms of birth control in the US.
Company website for Ortho Tri-cyclen Lo, a brand of oral contraceptive.
Information for LGBTQI
(Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender, Questioning, Intersex)
www.amplifyyourvoice.org/youthresource
As part of the Advocates for Youth website, this website provides information and communication opportunities for LGBTQI youth.
The Center at: www.equalityiowa.org
One Iowa is the state’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) advocacy organization, committed to full equality for LGBT individuals
CDC information at: www.cdc.gov/lgbthealth/
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website describing health issues and disparities that affect the LGBTQI population.
Healthy People 2020 Goals for the LGBTQI population at: www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topicsobjectives2020/overview.aspx?topicid=25
Healthy People website describing goals for reducing health disparities in the LGBTQI community.
Information About Pregnancy
The American Pregnancy Association is a national health organization committed to promoting reproductive and pregnancy wellness through education, research, advocacy, and community awareness.
WebMD at: www.webmd.com/baby/default.htm
WebMD presents interactive pregnancy information, including week-by-week information and photographs.
The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology website offers robust information on pregnancy, women’s health, and where to find an obstetrician.
Information for professionals
ETR Associates is a nonprofit organization uniquely positioned to meet your health promotion and health education needs. ETR is a leading publisher of patient education, health promotion, and health education pamphlets and other materials.
Located in Baltimore, MD, Healthy Teen Network has been making a difference in the lives of teens and young families since its founding in 1979. Healthy Teen Network is the only national membership network that serves as a leader, a national voice, and a comprehensive educational resource to professionals working in the area of adolescent reproductive health – specifically teen pregnancy prevention, teen pregnancy, teen parenting, and related issues.
The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology website offers robust information on pregnancy, women’s health, and where to find an obstetrician.