CDC Report Indicates Teen Sexual Health Trends Have Stalled
July 24, 2009
CDC Report Indicates Teen Sexual Health Trends Have Stalled

A recent report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests that after a decade of steady improvement in sexual health outcomes for teens and young adults nationally, there is a slowing of progress and in some areas an increase in negative outcomes. The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Surveillance Summary “Sexual and Reproductive Health of Persons Aged 10-24 Years—United States, 2002-2007” issued on July 17, 2009 shows preliminary data that indicates births to adolescents aged 15–19 years increased from 2005–2007, after they had been decreasing annually from 1991–2005.  This rate went from 40.5 live births per 1,000 females in 2005 to 42.5 in 2007. Other trends show the annual rate of AIDS diagnoses reported among males aged 15–19 years has nearly doubled in the past 10 years and gonorrhea and syphilis infection rates among adolescents and young adults have also shown recent increases. 

See also:

CDC MMWR Surveillance Summaries: Sexual and Reproductive Health of Persons Aged 10--24 Years --- United States, 2002--2007
CHHCS: Adolescents and STDs
CHHCS: The First 25 Years of AIDS--Looking Back and Ahead