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Get the Facts !
- Every year
3 million teens--about 1 in 4 sexually active teens-get a Sexually
Transmitted Disease (STD).1
- Chlamydia
is more common among teens than among older men and women.2
- Teens have
higher rates of gonorrhea than do sexually active men and women
aged 20-44.3
- Some studies
show that up to 15% of sexually active teenage women are infected
with the human papillomavirus (HPV), many with the type of HPV
that is linked to cervical cancer.4
Questions
to Ask Tattoo Artists & Body Piercers
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Making Oral Sex Safe
There are ways
to protect yourself and iwannaknow.org can help.
What
do you wannaknow?
Sources:
1 AGI, Sex and America's Teenagers, New York: AGI,
1994, pp. 19-20.
2 Donovan P,
Testing Positive: Sexually Transmitted Disease and the Public Health
Response, New York: AGI, 1993, p. 24.
3 Donovan P,
Testing Positive: Sexually Transmitted Disease and the Public Health
Response, New York: AGI, 1993, p. 24.
4
Donovan P, Testing Positive: Sexually Transmitted Disease and the
Public Health Response, New York: AGI, 1993, p. 24-25.
If
you have questions or concerns that need immediate attention, please
call the National STD/AIDS Hotline at 800-342-2437 (800-342-AIDS)
and speak to a health communication specialist directly.
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