Many teens and young women think STDs can't happen to them

Same-day STD testing is available

According to health services providers, same day STD testing is available for people to know their status. A surefire way to underestimate STDs risk is when people are shy to discuss young sexually transmitted diseases with their doctors. According to a survey by Quest Diagnostics; when proper dialogue fails, false beliefs and wrong details about STDs will boost negative records across the country.

Communication between physicians and their patients

The scourge of sexually transmitted diseases is prevalent in young people; in 2016 over two million cases of STDs were the highest level witnessed by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. With about one million of these cases linked with young people,  the spokesperson for a research body called Secaucus was quoted as saying; 'Fifty-one percent of the young respondents who took part in our survey as sexually active people dislike discussing STDs or sex with their physicians.

More so, 27% of these respondents agreed that they hide the truth about their sexual history from their physicians. These youngest sexually active youth are at risk of not skipping diagnosis. When sexually active respondents of ages 15 to 17 were interviewed, only 43 percent agreed to have deceived health providers about the status of their sex life. Similarly, these teenagers didn't readily get counseling from infection testing experts than the other respondents that participated in a similar Quest survey some years ago.By letting the cat out of the bag, some physicians are behind the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. Presently, the regular advice from the CDC is that sexually active women below 25 years old should undergo Gonorrhea and Chlamydia testing every year.  Even about 49 percent of unmarried girls disagreed that their physicians or nurse persuaded them to undergo STD screening.

Watch your reproductive health

When young women, especially those in their teens think, they are immune from contracting sexually transmitted infections, they simply might be toying with their reproductive health. The spread of sexually transmitted diseases affects ignorant and test-resistant people. More so, it's on record that younger women don't like to face the bold truth about STD risk.

Fifty-six percent of sexually active people enjoy same day STD testing but are neck deep in STD misconception. Sixty-two percent of the respondents gave reasons for not being at risk that's why they avoid STD test, and fifty-five percent are without symptoms. Shockingly, a small number of thirty-nine percent used a condom at their last sexual encounter.

Barriers for STD prevention

Going by a recent survey, the increase of STD spread in young women is based on their apathy to narrate any sexual activity they perform. More so, false beliefs increase the rapid increase in STD, as quoted by Quest's medical director of women's health, Damian P. Alagia. Director Alagia was quoted to have said; 'Our hope in sharing this survey's result with the general public and physicians is that it opens a channel for dialogue about reproductive health and STD risk. This is completely crucial in reversing the trend of high STD rates in the U.S'

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