Fourteen Percent of Fourteen Year Old Female Teens Have an STI

Fourteen Percent of Fourteen Year Old Female Teens Have an STI

A nationally representative survey of the prevalence of the five most common sexually transmitted infections (STIs) revealed that 24% of US teenage women between the ages of 14 and 19 years old are infected with at least one STI. Additionally, half of all female adolescents in the study reported sexual experience. Prevalence of STI in…