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Why One Virginia City’s Teen Pregnancy Rate Dropped By 70 Percent

Posted by Nick Gilmore in Virginia's News on November 28, 2017

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Nationally, teen pregnancy rates have fallen to historic lows. Here in Virginia nowhere has the change been more drastic than in Petersburg. Mallory Noe-Payne reports.

https://virginiapublicradio.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/vpr-teen-pregnancy.mp3

Click here to read the Virginia Department of Health announcement.

Click here to read the Pew Research Center report on falling teen pregnancy rates.

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