{"id":3077,"date":"2016-06-03T08:42:35","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T12:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3077"},"modified":"2016-06-03T08:42:35","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T12:42:35","slug":"young-people-at-risk-for-stds-often-dont-get-tested-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3077","title":{"rendered":"Young People At Risk For STDs Often Don\u2019t Get Tested: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Michelle Andrews for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Although they account for half of all new sexually transmitted infections, most young people between the ages of 15 and 25 have never been tested for those infections,\u00a0according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jahonline.org\/article\/S1054-139X(16)00019-7\/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\">a study<\/a> published in the May issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health.<\/p>\n<p>The 2013 survey of 3,953 adolescents and young adults by researchers at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that 11.5 percent had been tested for a sexually transmitted infection\u00a0in the previous year, including 17 percent of females and 6 percent of males. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/young-people-at-risk-for-stds-often-dont-get-tested-study\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=30228520&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_Zjkl_WJeCxlRWd8lOr8OGX02h1si9k8env2clbk0roMiYv-OlbahZBdwP_5kACDpq90uQynDbWb4ELHGUJ77gsFh0Iw&amp;_hsmi=30228520\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 15px\/1.6 'Open Sans', serif; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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