Half of Young Americans to Get Sex Diseases -Study

[vicman]

Half of Young Americans to Get Sex Diseases -Study

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By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Half of all young Americans will get a sexually transmitted disease by the age of 25, perhaps because they are ignorant about protection or embarrassed to ask for it, according to several reports issued on Tuesday.

The reports, publicized by two nonprofit sexual and youth health groups, said there were 9 million new cases of STD among teens and young adults aged 15 to 24 in 2000.

They said the U.S. government's policy of preferring abstinence-only education would only increase those rates.

"For the 27 million young Americans under the age of 25 who have had sex, the stakes are simply too high to talk only about abstinence," James Wagoner, president of Advocates for Youth, said in a statement.

"Given the prevalence of STDs, young people need all the facts -- including medically accurate information on condoms."

The reports, released jointly by Advocates for Youth -- a nonprofit group advocating for sex education, and the sexual health-oriented Alan Guttmacher Institute, pull together information from several different publications.

They include a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (news - web sites) report in the latest issue of the journal Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, and a University of North Carolina report based on interviews with teens and young adults.

"Approximately 18.9 million new cases of STD occurred in 2000, of which 9.1 million (48 percent) were among persons aged 15 to 24," the CDC report reads.

It said three diseases -- human papillomavirus or genital wart virus, a parasitic infection called trichomoniasis and chlamydia -- accounted for 88 percent of all new cases of STDs in 15- to 24-year-olds. Wart virus is the major cause of cervical cancer while chlamydia can cause infertility.

POTENTIAL CAUSES

The CDC report did not comment on potential causes, but the Guttmacher Institute did.

"It is not surprising that teens and young adults contract a disproportionate number of infections," said Guttmacher's Sharon Camp. "Most young people are sexually active, and many are ill equipped to prevent STDs or seek testing and treatment."

She said sex education that includes information on condoms is vital to preventing STDs.

"Although abstaining from sexual activity is guaranteed to prevent STDs, some adolescents and virtually all young adults will eventually choose to have sex," Camp said.

"Before they do, they need realistic sex education that teaches them how to prevent STDs and unwanted pregnancies. It is essential to have medically accurate information about condoms and other contraceptive methods, and guidance on how to access appropriate prevention, testing and treatment services."

Teens 15 and older who have had sex have the highest STD rates of any age group in the country, and the United States has the highest STD rate of any industrialized country, according to CDC and World Health Organization (news - web sites) figures.

The University of North Carolina report attacked federal policies that encourage abstinence-only education.

"Abstinence is, of course, the only 100 percent effective prevention strategy," Shawn Carney, a 17-year-old member of the UNC youth panel, said in a statement.

"But with 70 percent of young people having sex by the age of 18, we need to hear about more than abstinence. We need to know how to prevent STDs when we do have sex later in life."

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[pattbateman]

not to be racist or anything (but im sure someone will pin it on me) but the majority of these people getting and spreading these diseases are in the ineer city and are minorities

just pointing that out

[bigpoppanils]

Originally posted by pattbateman

not to be racist or anything (but im sure someone will pin it on me) but the majority of these people getting and spreading these diseases are in the ineer city and are minorities

just pointing that out

:laugh: :laugh:

white people dont spread STDs

i get it now

:laugh: :laugh:

[vixengirly]

Originally posted by pattbateman

not to be racist or anything (but im sure someone will pin it on me) but the majority of these people getting and spreading these diseases are in the ineer city and are minorities

just pointing that out

wow, thats really ignorant.

[jamiroguy1]

Originally posted by pattbateman

not to be racist or anything (but im sure someone will pin it on me) but the majority of these people getting and spreading these diseases are in the ineer city and are minorities

just pointing that out

You've reached new heights of ignorance on this one.

[pattbateman]

its the truth assfucks

the MAJORITY of STD's are spread by minorities you fuck

nowhere did i say that whites dont spread STD i never even used the word whites

you guys love jumpin on me dont you?

[pattbateman]

shut your stupid dumb fuckin asses up you are all ignorant and love to stick up for minorities

when i speak the goddamn truth

you guys should love this its a DOT ORG

http://www.ashastd.org/advocacy/minpos.html

POSITION STATEMENT OF STD PREVENTION PARTNERSHIP

Minorities and Sexually Transmitted Diseases

The Issue:

Sexually transmitted diseases are reported at higher rates for minoritygroups than in whites. In turn, the reported negative consequences of STDs disproportionately affect minorities. For example:

Minority populations have higher rates of reported gonorrhea and syphilis than whites. In 1993, compared with whites, African Americans, Native Americans, and Hispanics had gonorrhea rates that were 42, 5, and 4 times higher, respectively; African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans had syphilis rates that were 64, 13, and 5 times higher, respectively.1

The South has consistently had higher rates of both gonorrhea and syphilis compared with other regions throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Minority populations are disproportionately located in southern states.2

African American men have gonorrhea rates that are 68 times greater than those in white men. For women, these rates are 28 times greater in African Americans than in whites.3

African American adolescents and young adults have STD rates that are more than 20 times higher than those in white adolescents.4

Comprehensive chlamydia screening programs for women thus far show higher rates for minority women than for white women.5

Non-white women are nearly three times as likely as white women to be hospitalized with acute Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID) and more than two times as likely to be hospitalized with chronic PID.6

African American women are nearly three times more likely to die of cervical cancer than white women, when data are adjusted for age.7

Opportunities:

Involving affected communities in prevention planning. HIV prevention community planning involves racial/ethnic minority communities in determining the HIV prevention needs of their communities. STD programs, though somewhat different from HIV programs, can learn from this HIV prevention experience to help them identify ways to involve affected communities in STD prevention efforts.

Syphilis concentrated in the South. Focusing research and program efforts on syphilis in the South will allow increased opportunity to better focus prevention efforts on minority populations, both in terms of preventing syphilis and congenital syphilis and in terms of indirectly reducing HIV transmission.

Growing understanding of need for population-tailored programs. There is a growing understanding of the importance of culturally competent and linguistically appropriate behavioral interventions for STD and HIV prevention in minority communities. The increasing involvement of community-based organizations and national minority organizations in STD and HIV prevention affords an opportunity to capitalize on that understanding.

Negative STD-related consequences concentrated among minorities. As minority women have higher rates of chlamydia, gonorrhea and their consequences, there is an opportunity to avoid less effective generic prevention efforts and rather, to tailor prevention efforts to these populations.

Challenges:

Co-existence of STDs with other social problems. STD morbidity is concentrated in the same racial/ethnic populations that face competing problems such as increasing poverty, high levels of unemployment, teenage pregnancy, drug use/distribution, violence, and prostitution. These problems frequently impede attempts to provide services and, in some communities, are often perceived as outweighing the importance of health issues.

Unclear relationship between STDs and race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status (SES). Determining the effects of race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status on STD morbidity is a major scientific challenge.

Legacy of Tuskegee. After penicillin was identified as an effective drug against syphilis, African Americans participating in a Public Health Service (PHS) funded study who were infected with syphilis were left untreated. In turn, they suffered the consequences of syphilis under the justification that researchers needed to complete the original study to observe the natural course of syphilis. The Tuskegee study has left PHS with a legacy that is both a burden and an opportunity. PHS must live and deal with the mistrust born of the mistakes of the past and ongoing issues of racism. Yet, as new programs evolve, there is heightened sensitivity to issues of diversity, equality, and fairness during the process of refining and developing prevention and research programs.

Reporting bias. Racial/ethnic minority populations are over-represented among persons of lower socioeconomic status in the United States, and therefore, they more frequently seek health care through public providers than white Americans. Reporting by public providers is more complete than reporting by private providers. Consequently, STD surveillance data probably overestimate morbidity among racial/ethnic minorities relative to morbidity among white Americans.

Sociocultural differentials and risk behaviors. Deep-seated sociocultural differences may underpin some of the racial/ethnic differentials in risk behaviors. For example, beliefs in the effectiveness of condoms as prophylaxis against infection is most widespread among whites and least widespread among Hispanics. In addition, a 1988 national survey indicated that two-thirds of African American women compared to only one-third of white women reported douching, a practice that increases the risk for PID, ectopic pregnancy, and cervical cancer.

Higher concentration of youth and women. The age composition and sex ratio of African American and Hispanic populations are more conducive to the spread of STDs than that of the white population. Hispanic and African Americans have younger populations than white Americans; African Americans, especially, have an excess of women over men in young, sexually active age groups.

Recommendations:

STD prevention efforts should involve affected racial/ethnic minority communities in planning, developing, implementing and evaluating programs to begin to overcome many of the challenges that currently hinder STD prevention.

STD prevention in minority communities should be integrated with other relevant programs through which the population has been successfully reached.

In surveillance of STDs, methods to overcome potential reporting bias should be identified. These efforts should include increased and better enforcement of mandatory reporting requirements by private providers to assist in alleviating reporting bias.

The problem of reporting bias for STDs should be communicated to the general public and minority communities.

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1Division of STD Prevention, Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance 1994, CDC, Atlanta, 1995.

2Ibid.

3Ibid.

4Ibid.

5Division of STD Prevention, Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance 1994, CDC, Atlanta, 1995.

6Rolfs RT, Galaid EI, Zaidi AA. Pelvic inflammatory disease: Trends in hospitalizations and office visits, 1979-1988. Am J Obstet Gynecol 192;166:983-90.

7American Cancer Society Department of Epidemiology and Surveillance, Atlanta, GA, October 1994, based on data from the Division of Vital Statistics, the National Center for Health Statistics, CDC.

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About the STD Prevention Partnership. . .

The STD Prevention Partnership is a group of national organizations with shared concern about the continuing spread of STDs, including HIV. Its mission is to support and encourage partnerships among the private, voluntary, and public sectors in developing and implementing strategies to reduce the incidence and impact of STDs. Membership in the STD Prevention Partnership does not necessarily imply endorsement of this statement by each individual organization participating in the Partnership.

[pattbateman]

here is from the CDC assfucks http://www.cdc.gov/nchstp/dstd/Stats_Trends/1998Surveillance/98PDF/Section9.pdf

[pattbateman]

in 1998 77% of total reported cases of gonorrhea were in african americans

you guys refuse to see the truth in things

[bigpoppanils]

Originally posted by pattbateman

reported

key word here.

could it be that minorities just get tested more often? that would explain some of the statistics.

[pattbateman]

can you fucks ever cut me a break? seriously? no matter what the amount of evidence i provide its ALWAYS something

[bigpoppanils]

Originally posted by pattbateman

can you fucks ever cut me a break? seriously? no matter what the amount of evidence i provide its ALWAYS something

[normalnoises]

Originally posted by pattbateman

can you fucks ever cut me a break? seriously? no matter what the amount of evidence i provide its ALWAYS something

Sure, when you stop relying on stats that are no longer valid and use more recent ones we'll cut you slack... er I mean..... nevermind... better seeing you hang.

[jamiroguy1]

Originally posted by pattbateman

can you fucks ever cut me a break? seriously? no matter what the amount of evidence i provide its ALWAYS something

No, because you have no respect for anyone, douchebag.

[mr mahs]

Originally posted by bigpoppanils

key word here.

could it be that minorities just get tested more often? that would explain some of the statistics.

Oh so the minorities are the only ones who go and see a doctor when their cocks are dripping like a good humor cone in August? now that's ignorance...

[mr mahs]

Originally posted by normalnoises

Sure, when you stop relying on stats that are no longer valid and use more recent ones we'll cut you slack... er I mean..... nevermind... better seeing you hang.

Show me some recent stats that contradict the "No longer valid" stats.

[igloo]

Looks like pattbatemann issued a thorough ass kicking to the imbecile brigade ......

I think jamirolost and bigpoopinnails owe patbatteman an apology......

No need for one from abnormalnoises.......this social disease just needs to be ignored.....

[jamiroguy1]

awww poor patbattman.

[vicman]

this is a complex issue. minorities do show larger incidence and prevalence of STDs, HIV and AIDS in comparison to caucasians, and these cases tend to cluster in larger metropolitan areas due to the availability of services in those areas.

compared to say oklahoma city where there could just 1 AIDS service organization, i know there are like 15 in the area of Harlem alone. anyway part of the problem is the duplication of tests performed, since there is no way to track people when they get tested for HIV and other STD's since most of the tests are anonymous and confidential (depending on each state's law) the same person could get tested 3 or 4 times in different places and reported by each organization, thus inflating the number.

in essence, both are correct. minorities are more greatly affected (roughly 10% of the US population in the US is African American while 70% of the HIV/AIDS cases are reported among this population group, Hispanics show less dramatic numbers, but still their numbers are high) but also it has been shown that rates of STD's and HIV are increasing among young white males and females (gay or non gay) in the past 10 years. part of it is that this population group was not around when the epidemic first devasted the white gay population in the mid-70's to early 80's.

[vicman]

of course the saddest thing is that $$$ for prevention is being cut at the same time the rates are increasing overall.

[mr mahs]

Originally posted by vicman

this is a complex issue. minorities do show larger incidence and prevalence of STDs, HIV and AIDS in comparison to caucasians, and these cases tend to cluster in larger metropolitan areas due to the availability of services in those areas.

compared to say oklahoma city where there could just 1 AIDS service organization, i know there are like 15 in the area of Harlem alone. anyway part of the problem is the duplication of tests performed, since there is no way to track people when they get tested for HIV and other STD's since most of the tests are anonymous and confidential (depending on each state's law) the same person could get tested 3 or 4 times in different places and reported by each organization, thus inflating the number.

in essence, both are correct. minorities are more greatly affected (roughly 10% of the US population in the US is African American while 70% of the HIV/AIDS cases are reported among this population group, Hispanics show less dramatic numbers, but still their numbers are high) but also it has been shown that rates of STD's and HIV are increasing among young white males and females (gay or non gay) in the past 10 years. part of it is that this population group was not around when the epidemic first devasted the white gay population in the mid-70's to early 80's.

Moral of the story...."Bag it up, don't be a hero"

[igloo]

Originally posted by mr mahs

Moral of the story...."Bag it up, don't be a hero"

And for abnormalnoises--"cut if off, never ever reproduce"

[mrmatas2277]

Originally posted by igloo

And for abnormalnoises--"cut if off, never ever reproduce"

[mr mahs]

Originally posted by igloo

And for abnormalnoises--"cut if off, never ever reproduce"

So true, Someone should 12 iron his nuts-sack so he can't reproduce...