HEADLINES

• 70 MILLION PEOPLE INFECTED WITH STD
   
• APPROXIMATELY TWO-THIRDS OF ALL PERSONS ACQUIRE STD’S ARE UNDER 25. (24)
   
• ALMOST 50% OF NEWLY REPORTED HIV INFECTIONS ARE FOUND IN PEOPLE UNDER 25. (26)
   
• BY AGE 24, AT LEAST ONE IN THREE SEXUALLY ACTIVE PEOPLE WILL HAVE CONTRACTED AN STD. (28)
   
• BEING INFECTED WITH AN STD INCREASES THE RISK OF SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED HIV INFECTION
   
• MORE TEENS HAVE CHLAMYDIA THAN ANY OTHER AGE GROUP
   
• RATES FOR GENITAL HERPES HAS INCREASED BY 500 % AMONG WHITE TEENS.
   
• PREVALENCE OF GENITAL HERPES ESPECIALLY HIGH AMONG BLACKS. (46%)
   
• TEENAGE PREGNACY NUMBER ONE REASON TEENAGE GIRLS GO TO THE HOSPITAL.
   
• ABOUT ONE-THIRD OF ADOLESCENT PREGNANCIES ARE ABORTED.
   
• YOUNG FEMALES ARE BIOLOGICALLY MORE SUSCEPTIBLE TO CHLAMYDIA, GONNORHEA, AND HIV.
   
• SUCIDE RATES ARE SIX TIMES HIGHER FOR NON-VIRGINS THAN VIRGINS.
   
• 100 PERCENT OF CONDOM USE DOES NOT ELIMINATE ANY STD.
   
• CONDOMS CANNOT PREVENT THE SPREAD OF STD’S FROM LESIONS THAT OUTSIDE THE AREAS COVERED BY A CONDOM.
   
• 100 PERCENT CONDOM USE IS SO UNCOMMON THAT IT IS ALMOST A PURELY THEORETICAL CONCEPT EXCEPT FOR A VERY FEW VERY METICULOUS INDIVIDUALS.
   
• FEMALES SUFFER MORE SEVERE COMPILATIONS OF STD’S THAN MALES
   
• MOST PEOPLE INFECTED WITH STD’S DO NOT KNOW IT.
   
• 75% OF SEXUALLY ACTIVE TEENS HAVE NEVER BEEN TESTED.
   
• ADOLESCENTS TREATED FOR STD’S ARE AT A HIGHER RISK FOR REINFECTION.
   
• NUMBER OF SEX PARTNERS KEY IN CERVICAL CANCER RISK.
   
• STD RISK ASSOCIATED WITH PARTNER’S HAVING OTHER PARTNER’S AND LACK OF AWARENESS OF PARTNER’S PARTNER.

SURVEY OF TEENS IN THAILAND SHOWS LARGE CONDOM EDUCATION PROGRAM FAILED. 11/16/03
Agence France presse.
 
During the 1990’s, Thailand was lauded for it’s large publicity campaign promoting condom use. However, a three year survey shows that the contraception education program employed has not worked. Acoording to Thailand’s health ministry, the HIV infected rate has jumped from 11 to 17 percent over the past year. Most teenage boys today do not use condoms and the average age for having sex for the first time dropped from 16 to 14 years old.