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Sun, sea and STDs
Written by JuniorDr Team   
Thursday, 06 December 2007

condom_small.jpgOne in five young Britons has sex with someone new while abroad, according to the study of 1800 people published  in the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections. One in four men (23 percent) and one in six women (17 percent) between the ages of 16 and 24 admitted to having sex with someone new while overseas. Men were significantly more likely to have sex with Asian and North American partners. One in 10 men and one in 12 women who said they had sex while overseas assessed their HIV risk as high or moderately high.

www.bmj.com/cgi/full/335/7615/312

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