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Some STD Rates on the Rise in the U.S.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control recently released a report about sexually transmitted diseases in America. Would you be surprised to know that nearly twenty million Americans are affected by STDs each year? I was. Chlamydia reached a record high in 2006 — more than one million new cases reported. This is the second year in a row in which Chlamydia cases increased. Young women between the ages of fifteen and nineteen had the highest Chlamydia rate in the nation. And Chlamydia wasn’t the only sexually transmitted disease on the rise. Gonorrhea and syphilis cases were also up for the … Continue reading →

Twenty-Five Years of AIDS

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In 1981, the news first broke. A report of a nameless but deadly disease in a handful of men in New York City and Los Angeles, California. Today that handful has become more than a million people living with the virus called HIV in the United States. Over the last quarter of a century, more than twenty-five million people around the world have died. That includes more than five hundred thousand Americans. Of the more than one million people in the United States with HIV, about one quarter have no idea they have the virus. They have not yet been … Continue reading →