HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)
Each year in the United States, about 20,000 young people are newly infected with HIV. Teens are at high risk for infection with HIV, even though they account for only a small percentage of reported AIDS cases. Over the last few years the annual number of new HIV infections has risen among youth. Furthermore, because of HIV's long incubation period, most people who have been diagnosed with AIDS while in their twenties may have been infected with HIV when they were teenagers.
Adolescents experience nearly four million of the 15 million cases of sexually transmitted infection (STI) estimated to occur annually in the United States. The stigma associated with STI often prevents people from discussing STI and from getting treatment when they are infected. Teens have high rates of STI. In fact among American females, teens normally have the highest incidence of reported STI. Among males, teens have STI rates second only to males ages 20 to 24.
What you should know about HIV in the United States
What you should know about HIV in developing countries
What you should know about HIV and Policy
For Educators
For Parents
For Youth
More Advocates' Publications on HIV and STIs:
- America's Least Wanted: Sexually Transmitted Diseases (Pamphlet) [html]
- Child Sexual Abuse II: A Risk Factor for HIV/STDs and Teen Pregnancy (The Facts) [html]
- Creating Successful Public Education Campaigns to Prevent Teen Pregnancy and HIV (From Research to Practice) [html]
- Integrating Efforts to Prevent HIV, Other STIs, and Pregnancy among Teens in Minnesota (Issues at Glance) [html] [pdf]
- Peer to Peer: Youth Preventing HIV Infection Together [pdf]
- Science-Based Practices in Teen Pregnancy and HIV/STI Prevention: Selected Annotated Bibliography (From Research to Practice) [html] [pdf]
- Will the Politics of Teen Sex Stop a Cancer Vaccine? [html] [pdf]
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