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Texas witnessed a decline in STIs like gonorrhea, chlamydia, and syphilis, but recently saw a huge increase in HPV in young women. Currently, one out of two sexually active women between 18 and 24 have or will contract HPV, a silent virus that inevitably leads to cervical cancer and/or genital warts.

Guttmacher Research Institute, 2009

Facts

13 percent of Texas female teens will have more than four sexual partners by age 18.

Only 49 percent of female teenagers in Texas used a condom the last time they had intercourse. The national average is 55 percent.

80 percent of women will have had genital HPV by the time they're 50.

Gardasil, the HPV vaccine, is now available for females ages 9-26. Visit http://www.gardasil.com.