Sexually transmitted diseases on rise among Singapore's teens
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Sexually transmitted diseases including HIV infections are on the rise among Singaporean teenagers as a result of promiscuity and disregard for safe-sex practices, the Straits Times reported.
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At least 10% of girls in England have been infected by the age of 16 with human papilloma virus, which can cause genital warts and cervical cancer.
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Singapore has a major shortage of infectious disease specialists amid a rise in cases of communicable illnesses including AIDS, the Straits Times reported Monday.
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Teen birthrates continued their 15-year decline in 2005 as adolescents increasingly got into the habit of using condoms during sexual intercourse.
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Thousands of people will contract a sexually transmitted infection this weekend, campaigners warn.
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Singapore faces an AIDS epidemic,  with the number of new infections diagnosed expected to hit a  rate of 1,000 a year by 2010, a health official said.
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Young American teenagers are becoming  intimate and having sex at an earlier age than their parents  suspect, according to a new survey.
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Singapore will encourage condom use by gays and men who pay for sex but will stop short of a high-profile campaign because it might encourage casual sex among youths, a senior official said.
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Women aged 16 to 19 are 43% more likely to test positive for Chlamydia than women in their early twenties, show data from the first year of the Chlamydia screening programme in England, reported in Sexually Transmitted Infections.
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Activists, entertainers and health workers gathered across Asia as health officials say the risk of catching the disease is rising for women and girls.
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More than a quarter of U.S. girls  and women ages 14 to 59 are infected with the sexually  transmitted human wart virus, which causes most cases of  cervical cancer, U.S. health officials estimated on Tuesday.
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MOST of the new HIV/AIDS cases reported locally occur among persons between ages 15 and 24, according to Dr Yitades Gebre, a senior medical officer at the Ministry of Health.
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SINGAPORE Singapore is facing an &quot;alarming AIDS epidemic,&quot; with gay men&#39;s unsafe sexual practices the biggest cause of concern, the government has warned.
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Although New York City residents are healthier overall than they were a decade ago, increases in the number of cases of the sexually transmitted diseases syphilis and chlamydia show that the diseases &quot;may again be cause for concern,&quot; particularly because
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In New York City, there has been a sharp increase in new infections for men under 30 who have sex with men.
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NEW YORK  - A relatively new sexually transmitted infection has surpassed Neisseria gonorrhea in prevalence among young adults in the US, according to a new study.
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NEW YORK  - A large number of people between the ages of 14 and 39 years have chlamydia, a sexually transmitted disease, a new report indicates, while gonorrhea, another STD, is less prevalent.