Highest Risk:
• 18% street youth (CDC, STD Surveillance 2001)
• 15% young women in juvenile detention centers (CDC,
STD Surveillance 2001)
• 50% 18-21 year olds in high drug sale/use community
infected with HSV-2 (Friedman, 1997)
• African American youth
• Chlamydia rate 7x higher among 15-19 year old women
• HPV type 16 prevalence among women: African American
(27%), white (17%), Hispanic (12%)