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Re: Condoms.
Also, when questioning teenagers about sexual health, they are actually a lot more knowledgeable than we were... They tend to know where to get treatment, and don't worry too much about Gonorrhoea/Chlamydia, because they are easily treatable. However, teenagers today see HIV and AIDS as old peoples diseases. Publicity dictates that people die of AIDS when they are older (which is true in most cases). teenagers equate this with catching the disease older......
Modern drug therapies give HIV sufferers an near normal life span these days, but 30 years worth of treatment comes at a price, roughly £100,000 per year, per person. With over 50.000 known sufferers in the UK receiving treatment (a large percentage of which are immigrants) the cost to the UK taxpayer is enormous...
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