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Sex abstinence program languishing because of financial troubles.
2004 MAR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- 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 spokeswoman Beth Velasquez. The state spent $3,822, basically on administrative costs within the department, Velasquez said.
Montoya said the funds and money released by the federal government in 2003 for the current year means the department has about $629,000 for abstinence education. The department recently asked for proposals from community programs and will try to get the money out quickly, she said.
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