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Facts about Senior Citizens and STD’s and HIV

Venereal diseases are spreading more than ever among senior citizens. The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that people age 50 and older make up more than 10 percent of total AIDS cases in this country, and that HIV cases are increasing among people in their 60’s and 70’s. Also, it has been reported that during the last decade HIV cases has risen 500 percent among Senior Citizens, and AIDS cases among people over-50 have risen from 16,00 in 1975 to 90,00 in 2003. Now nearly 27 percent of people living with AIDS in America are 50 and older.

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Why are Senior Citizens contracting STD’s or HIV?
-Remember, Senior Citizens did not come of age when sex education was being taught in public schools and, more often then not, are uninformed about Aids and HIV and how to protect themselves.

- Usually having been married for a long period of time, people age 50 and older, found it unnecessary to wear a condom. Now due to divorce or a partner dying, they find themselves dating again and are unfamiliar or not use to protecting themselves(wearing condoms) .

-A lot of older men date more then one woman at a time.

-Older woman, no longer able to get pregnant, see no need to use any type of birth control, which includes condoms.

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