STD Fast Facts
- Estimated number of Americans living with an STD: 65 million
- Number of new cases of STDs every year: 19 million
- Number of Americans who will get an STD in their lifetime: 1 in 4
- Number of unsafe sexual contacts it takes to get an STD: 1
- Number of Americans who have genital herpes: 45 million
- Percentage of Americans who have herpes and do not know it: 35
- Seconds it takes for a new person gets genital herpes: 30
- Number of people living with HIV/AIDS in America: 468,578
- Percentage of those people who are African-American: 44
- Number of people living with HIV who have not been diagnosed: 1 in 5
- Maximum number of days it takes to detect HIV with a DNA by PCR test: 28
- Estimated total number of cases of Chlamydia each year: 4,000,000
- Percentage of women living with Chlamydia who do not know it: 75
- Estimated cost of Chlamydia complications in the U.S. each year: $2,000,000,000
- Average cost of antibiotic to treat a case of Chlamydia: $15
- Percentage of people who have gonorrhea in the throat and do not know it: 90
- Percentage of people who have syphilis, do not know it, and develop complications years later: 33
- Estimated increased risk of acquiring HIV if infected with syphilis: 5 times
- Percentage of IV drug users who are infected with Hepatitis B: 30
- Percentage of IV drug users who are infected with Hepatitis C: 85
- Percentage of straight men and women who have had sex with more than 5 people in the last 6 months who have Hepatitis B: 21
- Number of people out of 100 infected with Hepatitis C who will develop chronic infection: 80
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