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Adolescents aged 15-24 account for nearly half of the 20 million new cases of STD's each year. Today, two in five sexually active teen girls have had an STD that can cause infertility and even death.

Births per 1,000 Females Aged 15-19 Years

By race and Hispanic Ethnicity, 2007-2015

Summary

In 2015, a total of 229,715 babies were born to women aged 15–19 years, for a birth rate of 22.3 per 1,000 women in this age group.

Teen birth rates declined from 2014 to 2015 for all races and for Hispanics.

In 2015, the birth rate of Hispanic teens were still more than two times higher than the rate for non-Hispanic white teens.

The U.S. teen pregnancy rate is substantially higher than in other western industrialized nations, and racial/ethnic and geographic disparities in teen birth rates persist.

Gonorrhea

Rates of Reported Cases by Year, United States, 1941-2016

Summary

In 2014, a total of 350,062 cases of gonorrhea were reported in the United States, yielding a rate of 110.7 cases per 100,000 population

Gonorrhea is the second most commonly reported notifiable disease in the United States

You can pass gonorrhea to others without knowing it

Gonorrhea can be cured with the right treatment

Teen Births

(Ages 15-19 years)

Summary

Even though the teen pregnancy rate has declined over the past few decades, the fact of the matter is that the United States has the highest teen pregnancy rate of the Western industrialized world.

Chlamydia

Rates of Reported Cases by Sex, United States, 2000-2016

Summary

Chlamydia is the most frequently reported bacterial sexually transmitted infection in the United States.
Chlamydia is most common among young people.
Chlamydia is known as a ‘silent’ infection because most infected people are asymptomatic and lack abnormal physical examination findings.

Chlamydia in Kane County

Ages 13+ years

Summary

Rates of Reported Cases by Year, Kane County, IL, 2010-2015

Gonorrhea in Kane County

(Ages 13+ years)

Summary

Rates of Reported cases by year, Kane County, IL 2010-2015
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