Breaking: One in 4 teenage girls has an STD.

Young people are having sex and without access to reproductive technologies or education, there are consequences. I have a hard time with the way the mainstream media covers “epidemics.” A lot of young women have HPV and it is not because they are promiscuous and “didn’t know any better.” But, it is not shocking that it is spreading at a fast rate with young women. Appropriate sex education helps with young women and as these stats show us, it is young women of color that are most susceptible.

At least one in four teenage girls nationwide has a sexually transmitted disease, or more than 3 million teens, according to the first study of its kind in this age group.
A virus that causes cervical cancer is by far the most common sexually transmitted infection in teen girls aged 14 to 19, while the highest overall prevalence is among black girls — nearly half the blacks studied had at least one STD. That rate compared with 20 percent among both whites and Mexican-American teens, the study from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found.

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