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Article: Center can provide birth control for West Virginia U. students
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- February 18, 1999
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Laura Janovich
University Wire
02-18-1999
(The Daily Athenaeum) (U-WIRE) MORGANTOWN, W.V. -- With a healthy supply of condoms, birth control pills, contraceptive foam, diaphragms and Depo-Provera, the West Virginia University Health Service is making sex safer for students.
According to Sue Turnbull, family planning nurse at Health Services, the program that educates and provides contraception to students has been up and running at WVU since the mid-1980's.
However, only 46 percent of 100 students interviewed in an unscientific survey were aware this program is available to them. Seventy-two percent of students stated that they would definitely take advantage of the program.
The Family ...