Healthy People 2020

Objectives Related to Adolescent Sexual Health

The “Healthy People” initiative has provided science-based, 10 year national objectives to improve the health of Americans for the past 3 decades. Several of the HP 2020 Objectives relate to adolescent health.

• Increase the proportion of elementary, middle and senior high schools that provide comprehensive school health education to prevent health problems in unintended pregnancy, HIV/AIDS, and STD infection.
• Increase the proportion of adolescents aged 17 years and under who have never had sexual intercourse.
• Increase the proportion of sexually active persons aged 15 to 19 years who use condoms to both effectively prevent pregnancy and provide barrier protection against disease.
• Increase the proportion of adolescents and young adults who have been tested for HIV in the past 12 months.
• Decrease chlamydia rates among females, aged 15-19.
• Decrease pregnancy rates among adolescent females, aged 15-17 years and aged 18-19 years
• Increase the proportion of females or their partners, aged 15-17 years and 18-24 years, at risk of unintended pregnancy, who used contraception at most recent sexual intercourse.