How Common Are Sexually Transmitted Diseases
The rate of Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) remain alarmingly high in most of the world. Despite educational, diagnostic, and therapeutic advances rates of STD are still rising. Even though some STDs can be rendered noninfectious or even cured, the rate of STDs has not be halted.
The reported prevalence of STDs among sexually active adolescent girls both with and without lower genital tract symptoms include chlamydia trachomatis is 10 to 25%. for gonorrhoeae it is 3 to 18%. For syphilis it is up to 3%. For Trichomonas vaginalis the reproted rate is 8 to 16%. For the herpes simplex virus the number is 2 to 12%.
For adolescent boys with no symptoms of urethritis the reported rates for C. trachomatis 9 to 11%. For gonorrhoeae it is 2 to 3%.
In 1996, the World Health Organization, estimated that more than 1 million people were being infected daily with an STD. About 60% of these infections occur in young people under the age of 25, and of those more about 30% were younger than 20 years old. Between the ages of 14 and 19, STDs occur more frequently in girls than boys by a ratio of nearly 2:1. By the time boys reach the age of 20, the rate of STDs are equal among boys and girls. An estimated 340 million new cases of syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia and trichomoniasis occurred throughout the world in 1999.
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