The Commons Health Select Committee's report into the state of sexual health in the UK, released last week, warned of the "mixed messages" received by young people.
Rates of gonorrhoea, syphilis and chlamydia have rocketed by 86 per cent, 500 per cent and 108 per cent respectively in the six years since 1996, according to the Public Health Laboratory Service. Meanwhile, teenage birth rates have finally started to show signs of stabilising, at around 30.8 per thousand 15 to 19-year-olds.
The results tally with Marie Stopes International's own survey, which revealed that half of 11 to 17-year-olds interviewed did not know that condoms could protect against HIV infection.
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