... them of the education that they need. Sex education is very important to a teenagers future and whether or not they contract an STD, get the AIDS virus or a teenage girl becomes pregnant. All of these factors will help make the lives of many teenagers lives better. From my four trimesters of health (sex ... my teacher informed us about the many ways people can contract HIV which becomes AIDS. I always knew that you couldn't get AIDS by touching someone with the virus. This part of the class really explained how AIDS works and destroys the body's immune system. Finally, my senior year I h...

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... were at risk of contracting an STD. And almost half of the sexually active students had never been tested for an STD, even though one in five college students know someone who has contracted a sexually transmitted disease while in college. In the U.S., one in four sexually active teens become infected with an STD every year: -134,000 new cases of syphilis ... are occurring each year, the highest infection rate in 40 years. -1.3 million new gonorrhea cases occur annually. -24 million new cases of human papilloma virus (HPV) occur annually -63% of all sexually transmitted disease (STD) ca...

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