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United States of Sex Ed

Twenty-eight states mandate some kind of sex education, but less than half of those require the curriculum to be medically accurate.

State law mandates:

Both sex and HIV

Only sex education mandated

Only HIV

Neither sex nor HIV

State policy information retrieved from the Guttmacher Institute. No data available for Wyoming.

¹ Sex ed is not mandatory, but health education, which includes medically accurate information on abstinence, is required.

² Sex ed is required in a county if the pregnancy rate is at least 19.5 or higher per 1,000 women aged 15—17.

Resources for educators meet national standards from the Sexual Information and Education Council of the United States..