Hader and other public health officials said a large number of young people have unprotected sex, many with multiple partners. In a 2007 study by the D.C. public school system, 60 percent of high schoolers and 30 percent of middle schoolers reported having had intercourse. Twenty percent of the high school students said they had had sex with four or more people, and 12 percent of the middle schoolers said they had had three or more partners.
Officials said many teenagers aren't aware that birth control measures, such as the pill or the patch, don't protect against STDs.
Here is something scary, did you know that 1-4 girls between the ages of 14-18 in South Dakota have an STD we don't know males because they don't test for HPV. What are you doing to protect your self and do you see this as a problem for your state? What can we do to fix it?
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If more people would just learn the dangers of STDs, they would probably stop having unprotected sex. Some would not stop but they should learn about them anyways.
I think that the best way to protect people against STDs is to educate them. People need to be taught the risks and protections that they can take. This will help in the prevention of spreading STDs.
People need the education to learn that STDs is bad for them and that we need to show them special ways how to prevent this and have safe sex. Also they can lower how they have sex all the time and make sure the person doesn't have it or even have AIDS. Just save sex for marrieage when your more educated.
Well i can honestly say i'm not having sex so that is how i am protecting myself. I don't really see myself getting an STD b/c of the fact that i'm waiting to do it. If we had more people come in and speak about STD's. I think it would greatly lessen the amount of secxual intercourse in young people.
I think that the schools down there need to teach the kids about STDs at an early age that way they will not be so reckless. Those are some really high numbers for people in school. They should also teach about abstinence so that the kids there will avoid having sex because it just isn't right for people still in school to be that sexually active.
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