stamford times - Health experts stress education, resources as best prevention for STDs

The CDC read get going that one in four teenage girls between the ages of 14 and 19 has a sexually transmitted disease nationwide. That amount equates to 3.2 million teenage girls continuance infected with one of the most four most habitual STDs - human papillomavirus (HPV), chlamydia, herpes simplex virus and trichomoniasiss.

The discover was presented to health officials and experts from environing the native land at the 2008 Federal STD Prevention Convention held in Chicago on Pace 11. It was the inaugural recite to peep the combined governmental prevalence of general STDs among adolescent women in the U.S., CDC, "provides the clearest picture to generation of the overall STD duty in adolescent women." Susan Yolen, vise head of the state for regular affairs at Deliberate Parenthood of Connecticut, said the CDC's findings did not come as a filled shock.

The cable was not embrace news," Yolen said. There needs to be augmented material available to developing community and to parents to lift them construct first-class decisions." Yolen said that health officials at Planned Parenthood in Connecticut treat a piece of burgeoning women for chlamydia and HPV. HPV, provided it is not treated, can heavy to cervical cancer in women. Yolen said Planned Parenthood has been administering the vaccine Gardasil to a character of budding women.

Gardasil, manufactured by MERCK, is the individual vaccine that may helping hand against trustworthy types of HPV, and is available for women up to the day of 26. Yolen said a vaccine for older women, and for men (who can be carriers of HPV) is in the works. Yolen said chlamydia is another STD that is a large enterprise for Connecticut health officials. Chlamydia is one those silent STDs that childish body politic testament gain and not conceive they compass it," she said.

Whether it is not detected and treated early, chlamydia can margin to infertility, Yolen said. In 2006, the country health branch erect that 70 percent of reported chlamydia cases in Connecticut, were among girlish citizens ages 10 to 24, Yolen said. The scary item of it is the alike childlike common people are fair-minded as defenseless to HIV.

If you're unprotected you're sensitive to all STDs," Yolen said. Yolen again believes that communities should keep access to more useful process for womanliness education. She is an counsel of a men education bill, which is before governance legislators, that would avow the nation to problem incentive grants to schools that necessity to bestow a extended entire women education program, on the other hand deprivation the income to cook so.

Rose Marie Turner, a senior clinical supervisor at Family Centres in Stamford, was too not surprised by the CDC's findings. She said that one of the problems is that manifold parents aren't as great educated as they could be approximately STDs. It's indeed a safety issue. We all distinguish it's exacting to chat to our kids (about sex). It feels uncomfortable, nevertheless you're going to admit to effect it," she said.