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Text front: What are your chances of getting an STD? The more sexual partners you have, the greater your risk of becoming infected with an STD, "One in two sexually/active youth, will contract an STD by age 25." State of the Nation 2005, American Social Health Assocation; Chart assumes they have had the same number as you have had.

Text back: The only ways to protect yourself from STDs are to abstain from sex, or to only have sex within a faithful lifelong commitment (i.e. marriage) to a partner who is STD free. Estimated number of new cases annually: Chlamydia, 2.8 million+; Gonorrhea, 700,000+; Syphillis, 36,000+; Herpes II, 1 million+; Human Papillomavirus (HPV) 6.2 million+; hepatitis B, 46,000+; Trichomoniasis, 7.4 million+; Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID), 1 million+; HIV (virus causing AIDS), 56,300+

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