Sources
1. Koutsky L. (1997). Epidemiology of genital human papillomavirus infection. American Journal of Medicine, 102(5A), 3-8.
2.County Health Department as reported in the August 16th, 2008 edition of the Alton Telegraph newspaper.
3. Alan Guttmacher Institute. (1994). Sex and America's Teenagers. New York: Alan Guttmacher Institute.
4. Cates JR, Herndon NL, Schulz S L, Darroch JE. (2004). Our voices, our lives, our futures: Youth and sexually transmitted diseases. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
5.Ness RB et al. (2004). Condom use and the risk of recurrent pelvic inflammatory disease, chronic pelvic pain, or infertility following an episode of pelvic inflammatory disease. American Journal of Public Health, 2004, 94:1327-1329.
Your health is important. The decision you make today could affect your health for the rest of you life.
Did you know:
- More than half of all people will have an STD/STI at some point in their lifetime. [1]
- In 2006, Madison County (the Alton area) had some of the highest rates of infection for STDs in the nation, ranking third in chlamydia, fourth in gonorrhea, and sixth for syphilis. Many STDs have no visible symptoms, and can be transmitted by oral sex as well as intercourse.[2}
- Each year, one in four teens contracts an STD/STI. [3]
- One in two sexually active persons will contact an STD/STI by age 25. [4]
- At least 15 percent of all American women who are infertile can attribute it to tubal damage caused by pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) , the result of an untreated STD.[5]
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