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A recent report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed that reported pregnancy and sexually-transmitted disease (STD) cases among US teenagers have significantly increased in recent years, following a decline in past years.
The report details that notable increase has been recorded in the years 2006 and 2007, following large declines since 1991. It outlines that efforts laid out to better sexual education and awareness in the country, which arguably led to the declines, are proving to be either ineffective or lacking in recent times.
“It is disheartening that after years of improvement with respect to teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, we now see signs that progress is stalling and many of these trends are going in the wrong direction,” according to Janet Collins.
Collins is the director of the CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.
Several noteworthy points made by the report are :
- Approximately a third of adolescents have not been given proper instruction regarding birth control by age 18.
- About a million people aged 10 to 24 had reported chlamydia, gonorrhea or syphilis in 2006.
- About 25% of all females aged 15 to 19, and about 45% of those aged 20 to 24 had a human papillomavirus (HPV) infection.
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