How common are STDs in America?
Sexually active teens and young adults: Ages 15 to 24 years old get over half of all new STD/STIs each year. 1Have the highest rates of Chlamydia. 1Ages 15 to 19 years old, have the highest rates of gonorrhea. 1About 1 in 4 teen girls gets an STD/STI. 1About 1 in 5 teens and adults gets genital herpes, and it is more common in women than in men. 1As many as half of all sexually active men and women have been infected with genital types of human papillomavirus (HPV) at some time in their lives. 1Every 1.5 seconds another person contracts an STD – that’s 19 million STDs per year of which only some are curable. 270 million people in the U.S. have an STD,1,2 over 80% don’t know they are infected because they have no symptoms.3The estimated total number of people in the US living with a viral STD is over 65 million.9Of the STDs/STIs that are diagnosed, only some (gonorrhea, syphilis, chlamydia, hepatitis A and B) are required to be reported to state health departments and the CDC.4One in tw
