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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services last year convened a syphilis task force focused on stopping the spread of the STD, with an emphasis on places with the highest syphilis rates ...
Last year, 14 of the 25 U.S. cities with the highest STD infection rates were in the South — meaning a region with roughly 39% of the the U.S. population contributed over half of the 25 cities ...
Within the region, the country with the highest rate of reported cases was Malta at 32.2 per 100,000 population, while the lowest number was reported from Croatia, at 0.9 per 100,000 people. [14] The number of HIV co-infections remains a prevalent issue with a worsening trend, especially in the "men who have sex with men" transmission category ...
The study by Innerbody used CDC data in order to see which cities had the highest and lowest STD rates. Columbus had the worst statistics in Georgia. See who else made the list.
Its incidence rate has been rising since 1997. Incidence rate among men was consistently higher than that among women (70.2 per 100,000 versus 40.6 per 100,000 in 2015). It was also increasing faster among men than women (85.2% versus 39.5% in 2010–2015). People between 15 and 29 years old had the highest rate.
Comprehensive sex education is the main topic in the documentary The Education of Shelby Knox (2005) about Lubbock, Texas, which has one of the highest teen pregnancy and STD rates in the nation; the "solution" to which is a strict abstinence-only sex education curriculum in the public schools and a conservative preacher who urges kids to ...
Three South Carolina cities were high among 100 U.S. cities with worst rates of STDs in the study. And one S.C. city was ranked 3rd highest overall.
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