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Sexually transmitted infections (STIs), also referred to as sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), are infections that are commonly spread by sexual activity, especially vaginal intercourse, anal sex and oral sex. [1] [2] The most prevalent STIs may be carried by a significant fraction of the human population.
Each year, between 8 and 10 million American teens contract a sexually transmitted infection (STI/STD), [note 1] almost half of the 19 million STIs reported for all age groups in the United States. [17] [45] Lloyd Kolbe, the director of the Center for Disease Control's Adolescent and School Health program, called the STI problem "a serious ...
The number of sexually transmitted infections (STI) in the United States in 2023 was down nearly 2% from the year before, a sign the epidemic could be slowing, the Centers for Disease Control and ...
Four curable STIs—syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, and trichomoniasis—account for more than 1 million infections each day. Hepatitis-related deaths have also increased from 1.1 million in 2019 ...
[105] [106] Out of a population of almost 295,270,000 people [107] there were 110 million new and existing cases of eight sexually transmitted infections. [108] Over 400,000 sexually transmitted infections were reported in England in 2017, about the same as in 2016, but there were more than 20% increases in confirmed cases of gonorrhoea and ...
Sexually transmitted infections are on the rise in older adults. An expert explains why. Cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis in Americans age 55 to 64 have more than doubled over the past ...
The National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP), formerly the National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHSTP) is a part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and is responsible for public health surveillance, prevention research, and programs to prevent and control human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and acquired ...
Sexually Transmitted Infections is a peer-reviewed medical journal that publishes original research, descriptive epidemiology, evidence-based reviews and comment on the clinical, public health, translational, sociological and laboratory aspects of sexual health, HIV and AIDS, from around the world. It also publishes educational articles ...