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Teen Pregnancy Rates Drop Dramatically in D.C.

By Liane Hansen

Published November 11, 2007 at 8:00 AM EST

A decade ago, Washington, D.C. had one of the highest rates of teen pregnancies. The rate has dropped from 1 in 6 teenage girls pregnant in 1996, to 1 in 16 today. Brenda Rhodes Miller, executive director of the D.C. Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, talks about progress that has been made, and work still left to be done.

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Liane Hansen

Liane Hansen has been the host of NPR's award-winning Weekend Edition Sunday for 20 years. She brings to her position an extensive background in broadcast journalism, including work as a radio producer, reporter, and on-air host at both the local and national level. The program has covered such breaking news stories as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the capture of Saddam Hussein, the deaths of Princess Diana and John F. Kennedy, Jr., and the Columbia shuttle tragedy. In 2004, Liane was granted an exclusive interview with former weapons inspector David Kay prior to his report on the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The show also won the James Beard award for best radio program on food for a report on SPAM.