HOPE YALL ARE PRACTICING SAFE SEX BECAUSE ACCORDING TO THE CDC CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL HAS RELEASED FRIGHTNING INFORMATION ON STI'S (SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS). STUDIES SHOW THAT 20 MILLION NEW (STI'S) ARE DIAGNOSED EVERY YEAR.
HALF YES I SAID HALF OF ALL NEW CASES AFFECT PEOPLE AGES 15-24 - WHO ONLY MAKE UP A QUATER OF THE POPULATION. HPV (HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS) TOPS THE LIST AS THE MOST COMMON INFECTION FOLLOWED BY CHLAMYDIA, GONORRHEA,SYPHILIS, HERPES, HEPATITIS B, HIV, AND TRICHOMONIASIS.
THE NUMBER OF NEW INFECTIONS IN THE COUNTRY HAS BEEN GROWING OVER THE LAST COUPLE DECADES, LEADING ONE CDC RESEARCHER TO DECLARE THAT THE U.S. IS FACING AN "ONGOING, SEVERE STI EPIDEMIC." THERE WERE 15 MILLION NEW INFECTIONS REPORTED IN 1996 AND 18.9 MILLION REPORTED IN 2000. THOUGH RESEARCHERS NOTED THAT THE METHODS FOR GATHERING INFORMATION ABOUT NEW INFECTIONS BACK THEN WERE SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT, AND MAY ACCOUNT FOR SOME DISCREPANCY IN THE NUMBERS.
MUCH OF THE $16 BILLION IN ANNUAL HEALTHCARE COSTS THAT GO TO STI'S IS SPENT ON PATIENTS WITH HIV/AIDS, WHO REQUIRE LIFETIME CARE. BUT LESS SERIOUS INFECTIONS AREN'T ALWAYS LESS EXPENSIVE. DISEASES LIKE CHLAMYDIA CAN LEAD TO COMPLICATIONS, ESPECIALLY IF THEY ARE NOT TREATED, WHICH CAN END UP COSTING PATIENTS THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS OUT OF POCKET. THAT MIGHT BE WHY ON THE EVE OF VALENTINES DAY, THE CDC DECIDED TO RELEASE TWO NEW STUDIES ON THE GROWTH OF STI'S AND TO URGE PEOPLE TO PRACTICE ABSTINENCE OR SAFE SEX BY USING A FORM OF BIRTH CONTROL AND GETTING TESTED!
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