The 16- to 24-year-old age group accounts for approximately half of all newly diagnosed STIs, despite making up just 12 per cent of the total population, according to The Health Protection Agency (HPA).
This included 65 per cent of new Chlamydia diagnoses (80,258 cases), 55 per cent of new genital warts diagnoses (51,153 cases) and 47 per cent of new gonorrhoea diagnoses (8,605 cases).
Overall there was an 11 per cent decrease in the total number of new gonorrhoea infections and a four per cent reduction in new syphilis cases.
The agency reported an increase of 0.5 per cent in STIs for all age groups from 397,909 cases in 2007 to 399,738 in 2008.
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