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             Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are very real and unfortunately do happen to a lot of teens. You'd probably be surprised to learn how many people you know in school that have an STD or who would get one during their teen years. Even worse, some risky behaviors that are practiced when you're a teen can show up years later and cause life-threatening illness. HIV/AIDS is what we're talking about. Many adults in there 20s or 30s got HIV when they were teens, but didn't find out until they were older. It can take HIV as long as 10 years to show up, even though you've had it all along. As the CFOC puts it:.
             "Every year 3 million teens (1 in 4 sexually experienced teens) become infected with an STD."" In the US during 1997, HIV infection was the 7th leading cause of death among individuals ages 15-24. Gonorrhea and chlamydia are the 2 most common STDs among teens and young adults.
             In a recent Teen People survey, teen's ages 15-17 reported that it's easier to have sex with a partner than to discuss STDs with a partner.
             Alcohol and drugs can make people do things they normally wouldn't do which may increase their risk of STDs. Adolescent females who used alcohol were 70% more likely to have several sex partners in the past 3 months than those who didn't use alcohol. Similarly, males who used alcohol were 60% more likely to have multiple sex partners.
             Teens make up less than 10% of the US population, but compromise 25% of the STD cases.
             A higher number of STD episodes were significantly related to having younger ages of 1st intercourse. A lot of people ask, "Why don't condoms work?- 54% of those who use condoms use them intermittently, for this group; the failure rate is 50-60% with in a year only 17% of those who use condoms use them all the time. Failure rate with 100% usage is 8-9% with in a year. The risk of a married partner of an HIV+ spouse becoming HIV+ is 1 in 6 with in months even with perfect condom use.


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1. STDs

... such intimate contact with infected blood, semen or vaginal secretions. There have been cases of HIV being passed to health care workers through needlesticks. The only sure way of preventing STDs and AIDS is through sexual abstinence or a relationship exclusively between two uninfected people. If you have several sexual partners or an infected partner, you place yourself at high risk of contracting an ... STD. Sexually transmitted disease (STD) is increasing in the United States. Most STDs are treatable, but there is no cure at present for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the caus...

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2. AIDS

... area. In many states, it is possible to be tested anonymously.Information about testing centers is also available by calling the CDC's National AIDS Hotline. (See Additional Sources Of Information.) Testing centers will also provide counseling about HIV and AIDS and help people understand their test results. Nice To Know: Q: Is a home test kit for HIV available? A: No approved HIV test kit will give ... used for dental work, now commonly recommended for safe oral sex) Latex gloves Most condoms are made from latex rubber. Using latex condoms, correctly and consistently, can greatly reduc...

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3. Aids

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4. Sexual Behavior and Morality

... them make the distinction in their own hearts. Some change has been occurring among teenagers and young adults. Even if the reductions in number of partners among teenagers are real, many adolescents are still at risk of AIDS and other STDs because of having multiple partners. The change from child to adult is an especially dangerous time for adolescents in our society. From their ... earliest years, children watch television shows and movies that insist that "sex appeal" is a personal quality that people need to develop to ... no longer the portal into sexual activity for many America...

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5. AIDS and STDS

When thinking of having sex, TRY AT YOUR OWN RISK should appear shortly there after. Now a days, more comes to mind then just intercourse. Over the last few years STD's and AIDS have been a very popular subject, especially among today's generation. These diseases, in some cases deadly, can not be easily avoided in discussion, however, there are numerous ways to prevent contracting ... STD's and AIDS.- Abstinence, safe sex, and being monogamous. The only way to make sure that you can be disease-free is not to be sexual active. Abstinence is the only 100% positive way of not ... , you wouldn't ...

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6. Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS, Education and Community

... statistics but rather informs the moral and social responsibilities of being catholic: While sickness is closely connected with humanity's sinful state, it would be wrong to see it as a punishment on a person for their sins' While the personal decision about sexual activity before marriage is a concern of the Catholic perspective, so too is the issue of AIDS/STDs. Its approach as expected is ... taken from the religious ideas of promiscuity and neglect of ones personal needs. However, like before it turns the issue from a negative view into the role of which the church is approaching .....

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7. Bacterial STDs

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8. Types of Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs)

... diseases (STDs) refer to pathogens that can be transmitted through sexual contact that caused different types of clinical syndromes and infections (Hill, Elam-Evans, Yankey, Singleton, & Kolasa, 2015). There are many types of sexually transmitted diseases but the common diseases are HIV/AIDS, Genital Herpes, and Viral Hepatitis (Refer to Figure 1 in Appendix). The first type of sexually transmitted disease is AIDS/HIV. ... Goldman, Troisi, and Rexrode (2013) reported that non-treated human immunodeficiency virus brings the outcome of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. The virus belongs...

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9. African Americans & Battle Against HIV/AIDS

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