"Yo Soy" is not only a declarative statement, but it's also a brave campaign assembled by some of the nation's leading Latino and health organizations, launched to combat the stigma and silence that surrounds sexual and reproductive health issues.
Teen births in the U.S. are reported to be at an all-time low with both the number of births and birth rate dropping by 10 percent in the last year, according to federal data released Thursday.
In a study released earlier this week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that Hispanics had the highest rate of teenage pregnancies in the U.S. in 2012. Per 1,000 Hispanic teens aged 15 to 17 years old, the birth rate was 25.5 percen,t while the total birth rate per 1,000 teens across all ethnicities in the same age group was 14.1 percent, according to the CDC Vital Signs study released Tuesday. Carla Galindo, behavioral scientist for the CDC, said the birth rate among Hispanic teens has decreased, but they still rank the highest in teen pregnancies based on ethnicity.
The birth rate for Hispanic teenagers in the United States dropped more than 40 percent from 2007 to 2011, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
