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Tuesday September 20, 2005
Promiscuity Linked to Disability, Premature Death
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ATLANTA, September 20, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The continuing push for explicit sex-ed programs in the US and abroad and the consequent rise in promiscuous sexual activity among youth has concerned organizations re-emphasizing the dangers that result from this phenomenon. One study being emphasized is a US Centers for Disease study which warned that the prevalence of sexually transmitted disease (STD) in the US is having a serious impact on the rates of disability and premature death.
In the year studied, 1998, approximately 30,000 deaths were attributable to STD infections, most prevalently HIV/AIDS, but also cervical cancer resulting from human Papilloma virus (HPV) in women. They reported that the US incidence for these diseases was three times the average rate of other developed countries.
In addition, the study, reported in January 27, 2005 edition of the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections, revealed that STDs accounted for 20 million cases of adverse health problems arising from STDs, such as infertility and a tendency to miscarriage.
The researchers at the Atlanta-based CDC reported a staggering 2 million years of life were absent as a result of STDs – known as “disability adjusted life years,” or DALYs – due to premature death and loss of healthy life because of disabilities attributable to sexual behavior. The 2 million represented 6% of the national total of DALYs.
The leading causes of death were HIV/AIDS for men, and HIV/AIDS and cervical cancer for women.
Meanwhile, UK researchers are now calling for major increases in the capacity of clinics to tackle what they call an STD “epidemic,” claiming that current levels are inadequate to meet the government's own health targets. Recorded numbers of new STDs have doubled in the last five years.
See related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Canada's Sexual Diseases Going from Bad to Worse with no Plan to Alter Failed "Safe-Sex" Approach
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/jun/04061109.html
New UK Abortion and STD Statistics: 1 in 5 Babies Killed; Teen STD Rates Doubled
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/mar/04033104.html
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http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/apr/04040501.html
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