The data shows that each of these infections occurs primarily through sexual transmission. Similarly, transmission between men who have sex with men has now become the main mechanism of infection .
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Vera Garcia emphasizes that “half of the 20 million new infections that are diagnosed annually in the United States, 70% of gonococci, 63% of chlamydia, 49% of diseases are associated with human papillomavirus, 45% of infections available virus type 1 type 2 at the anogenital level in 26% of HIV infections detected for the first time and 20% of syphilis occurs in young people aged 15 to 24 years ”.
Regarding syphilis, 8,141 cases were reported in 2022, of which 81% of these children under 25 years of age were in the group of 20 to 24 years and 18.6% in the group of 15 to 19 years. “We have had an increase in sexually transmitted infections for 20 years, in the case of syphilis it has become much more prominent in recent years,” points out the researcher.
Similarly, Hernando adds that in the case of Chlamydia trachomatis infection in 2022, “more than 26,000 cases have been diagnosed, of which 37.6% are in children under 25 years of age,” with more than 10,000 cases in this age group. Moreover, Hernando warns: “We see that the highest percentage in the youngest group is between 15 and 19 years of age, and it will be about 29%”.
