 | Today, Japan leads the world in condom use. Like cosmetics, they are sold door to door, by women. |
| Current statistics from the Center for Disease Control, estimate that over 12 million cases of STD's occur annually-that's nearly 23 per minute. |
| Every twelve minutes in the United States someone is infected with the AIDS virus, and every thirty minutes, there is an AIDS related death. |
| The most prevalent and fastest-growing STD in the United States is chlamydia, with nearly 5 million cases reported annually. |
| Among sexually active adults, lesbians have the lowest incidence of STD. |
| 9% of college women and 4% of men have been diagnosed as having an STD. |
| Each year more than 300,000 American teenagers become afflicted with some form of venereal disease. |
| According to the National Center for Health Statistics, 50% of single men age twenty-five, who have been sexually active since their teens, have contracted at least one STD. |
| The shelf-life for a latex condom is about two years. |
| Over 60% of all AIDS victims worldwide currently live in Africa. |
| Cuba is the only nation to require mandatory testing of its citizens for the AIDS virus. Those testing positive are sent to a special quarantine center in Havana to segregate them from the healthy population. All foreigners entering the country are also required to be tested. |
| In New York City, AIDS is the leading cause of death among women between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-four. |
| There are over 20 known STD's. |
| Pubic crab lice can survive only 24 hours after leaving the body, although their eggs can survive for 6 days. |
| Although women infected with the AIDS virus comprise only 10% of the total number of cases, their survival time from diagnosis until death is 1/10 that of white gay AIDS-infected men. On average women survive 15.5 weeks, while men last 156 weeks. |
| More than 10 percent of all people are currently infected with HIV in some regions of Latin America, Africa, and Asia. |
| Sixteen states do not require schools to provide STD, HIV, and/or AIDS education (AK, AZ, AR, CO, HI, ID, LA, ME, MA, MS, MT, NE, SD, TX, VA, WY). |
