STDs

Fast Facts

  • Each year 19 million Americans become infected with an STD.1

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  • Almost half of all new infections occur in young people ages 15-24.2

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  • 1 out of 4 sexually active teenagers will aquire an STD.3

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  • 1 out of 5 Americans under 65 has an incurable STD.4

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  • Most people don't know they are infected.5

 

Footnotes:

  1. Centers for Disease Control, “Trends in Reportable Sexually Transmitted Diseases in the United States," 2005.  Retrieved February 2007 from http://www.cdc.gov/std/stats/trends2005.htm.
  2. Ibid.
  3. Alan Guttmacher Institute, Sex and America's Teenagers. New York: Alan Guttmacher Institute, 1994.
  4. U.S. Department of  Health & Human Services, “Progress Review: Sexually Transmitted Diseases,” July 2004.  Retrieved February 2007 from http://www.healthypeople.gov/data/2010prog/focus25/.
  5. 4parents.gov, “Talk About Sexually Transmitted Diseases,” n.d. Retrieved Feb. 2007 from http://www.4parents.gov/talktopics/std.htm .

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