UK urges young people to avoid sex
By Sarah Boseley, Dec 2004
London: Young people should be encouraged to consider
abstaining from sex
outside marriage as one of the options for protecting
themselves against
the epidemic of sexually transmitted infections
sweeping the UK, the
British Health Protection Agency (HPA) suggested
yesterday.
Figures from the HPA, released in its annual report
yesterday, show that
teenagers and young people are disproportionately
affected by infections
such as chlamydia, which can make women infertile, and
gonorrhoea. A
television advertising campaign to try to change the
sexual (and its
related social) behaviour of young people will be
launched in the spring,
the UK government said yesterday. The pounds Sterling
50m campaign will be
as big as that of the 1980s which alerted people to
the dangers of Aids
with graphic images of tombstones and icebergs.
It comes at a time when there is concern about the
ignorance and
carelessness of teenagers and young adults towards sex
and an alarming
rise of sex outside marriage. Chlamydia, gonorrhoea
and genital warts are
all commonest in women aged 16-21 and men aged 20-26,
according to the HPA
report.
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