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Reproductive Health of AA Adolescents: Sexually Related Disease

Julia Andrews

February 2002

During the 1990s, reported rates of infection among African American teens increased for some sexually related diseases (e.g., chlamydia) but decreased for others (e.g., gonorrhea and syphilis). However, all sexually related diseases—in particular, HIV infection and AIDS—are more prevalent among black adolescents than among all other teens.

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