PREVALENCE OF SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS AND ASSOCIATED FACTORS AMONG YOUTHS

Any illness that is typically or frequently spread from person to person by direct sexual contact, such as syphilis, gonorrhea, AIDS, or a genital type of herpes simplex, is referred to as a sexually transmitted disease (STD). Additionally, HPV may be spread from a mother to her unborn child or, less frequently, from one person to another through non-sexual contact like as kissing, tainted blood transfusions, or the use of unclean hypodermic syringes ( Encyclopedia Britannica, 2008). Similar to this, Myless (2001) asserted that sexually transmitted illnesses are those that can be spread sexually and are brought on by a range of pathogens. However, Achalu (1993) defined sexually transmitted illnesses as a collection of infectious disorders in which the primary method of transmission is through sexual contact.

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