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Sexual health: preventing infections, for better and more pleasure

January 25, 2025

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By William Rowe-Pirra THE 25.01.2025 at 6:00 p.m. Reading 3 min. Subscribers

Persistent gaps in prevention are to blame for the increase in STI cases among young people. However, there is no shortage of preventive approaches and ways to protect yourself!

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Open and honest communication with your partner is important.

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This article is from the magazine Les Dossiers de Sciences et Avenir n°220 dated January/March 2025.

In March 2024, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) issued a warning that sexually transmitted infections (STIs), particularly among young people, are on the rise. Gonorrhoea cases jumped by 48% – 22% of new cases in 20-24 year-olds –, syphilis cases increased by 34% and chlamydia cases increased by 16% in 2022 compared to the previous year. As for HIV, data from 2022 showed 110,486 new cases diagnosed in Europe, of which 5.7% were in 15-24 year-olds, an upward trend compared to 2019.

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