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UI will not replace Avoid the Stork campaign (DailyIowan)

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There wasn't a stork in sight on campus this year.

The University of Iowa College of Public Health's Avoid the Stork campaign grant — given to the University by the Iowa Initiative Research Program — came to an end last spring, and officials have no plans for a safe-sex marketing campaign to take its place.

"We don't have any plans," said Trisha Schiltz, the health educator for Student Health/Health Iowa. "We're always out there for outreach, but we don't have anything as large scale because we don't have that kind of funding."

The Avoid the Stork campaign, part of the Iowa Initiative Research Program, was designed to educate women ages 18 to 30 about contraception and about improving behavior regarding sexual health.

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Complete article at Daily Iowan : http://bit.ly/tpaeOf