Sexually Transmitted Disease
The Challenge of STD Prevention in the United States
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, February 10th, 1997
Over the past four decades, a great deal of progress in STD prevention has been made in the Untied States. Rates of gonorrhea and syphilis have recently been brought to historic lows.
Yet the U.S. still has the highest rates of STDs in the industrialized world, with rates that are 50-100 times higher than other industrialized nations. There are an estimated 12 million new cases of STDs in the U.S. each year. Of these, three million occur among teenagers, 13 to 19 years old. A recent U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report documented...
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