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Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) is the nation’s leading health care educator, advocate and provider for women, men and teens. For the past 90 years this organization has been a leader in improving women’s health and safety and in preventing unwanted pregnancies. Planned Parenthood provides medically accurate, comprehensive, and age-appropriate information.

Planned Parenthood is headquartered in Washington, DC, and has a presence in all 50 states (860 affiliate locations). The organization works to expand and develop services and education in order to keep up with the needs of a changing society. Planned Parenthood Federation offers online health services and will discuss anything concerning the sexual life of a person. They respect privacy and can help counsel people through difficult decisions including sexually transmitted diseases and unplanned pregnancies. PPFA also provides comprehensive information on birth control and choosing the right method from abstinence to contraception and beyond. These include condoms, that when used correctly can provide a 98% to 99% effective rate against pregnancy and offer very good protection against HIV, chlamydia, herpes, hepatitis, gonorrhea, syphilis, etc. Many PPFA locations make condoms available.

Besides the online services, Planned Parenthood has mobile clinics, permanent clinics and express clinics in shopping malls. About 750,000 teenagers in the United States will become pregnant this year, and at least one in four teenage girls in U.S. has a sexually transmitted infection. Planned Parenthood is collaborating with state and federal governments to provide medically accurate and comprehensive sex education programs that helps teens stay healthy and make well informed decisions while guiding others through tough choices.

More than 33 million people are now living with HIV/AIDS. 2.5 million people were infected in 2007 alone and about 40 percent of the HIV infections occurred among young people between the ages of 15-24.

Planned Parenthood supports access to contraceptives, condoms, and reproductive health care worldwide to protect our health and safety. For more information on Trojan Condoms and related issues please see Trojan Condoms.

Planned parenthood can be reached online at http://www.plannedparenthood.org/. They can also be reached at: 1-800-230-PLAN (1-800-230-7526).