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News Briefs Australia: Unsafe Sex on the RiseDecember 23, 2002 Sexually transmitted infections in Australia have doubled in five years as young people ignore calls for them to abstain or practice safer sex, according to Sexual Health and Family Planning Australia. "A lot of young people who become sexually active are often under the wrong impression that if they have the same partner for two or three experiences, they think they are a couple," said the body's executive director Roberto Rojas-Morales. The rate of chlamydia doubled between 1996 and 2000, to affect 88 in 100,000 people. Back to other CDC news for December 23, 2002 Australian 12.11.02; Misha Schubert  This article was provided by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is a part of the publication CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update. |
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