High Risk Factors

High Risk Factors

• Ethnicity
  • Black teens at greatest risk for STD’s
  • Age adjusted rates in black males are 15 times higher than for their white counterparts
• Black adolescent females
  • Increased risk of death due to PID & syphilis compared to white girls
  • Have higher rates of chlamydial infections

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Latine females have chlamydial rates lower than blacks but higher than whites

Minority adolescents are at greatest risk for STD’s