Stds And How They Affect Society
BlackDoctor.org) -- Federal health researchers said this week that a whopping half of African American teenage girls have a sexually transmitted infection. That fact is troubling enough, but it's all the more so when you consider its implications for the Black AIDS epidemic.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the study, which is the first of its kind, on March 11 at its annual STD prevention conference. Researchers culled through 2003-2004 data in an ongoing, annual health survey of American households. As part of that survey, 838 14- to 19-year- old girls were tested for a handful of common sexually transmitted infections -- chlamydia, herpes, trichomoniasis and human papilloma virus, or HPV. More than a quarter of the girls had at least one of the infections, as did 48 percent of Black girls. Twenty percent of both white and Mexican American girls (the only Latino group CDC broke down the numbers on) had one of the infections.
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