Identify six risk factors that put young people at risk for contracting sexually transmitted infections


Various factors put young people at risk of STIs, including the following:
• A sexual partner who has an STI
• A history of STIs
• Feelings of invulnerability, which lead to risk-taking behavior
• Multiple partners or a partner who has had more than one sexual partner
• Meeting sex partners through the Internet (Individuals who find sex partners online are more likely to report unprotected sex, higher rates of drug use in the past 12 months, more sexual partners, and failure to discuss sexual histories.)
• Failure to use condoms
• Substance abuse. (Individuals who drink or use drugs are more likely to engage in sexually
risky behaviors, including sex with partners whose health status and history they do not know, and unprotected intercourse.)
• Failure of infected individuals to notify a partner about need to seek treatment
• Use of injection drugs or a sexual partner who uses them

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