Anna, 18, from Essex says she suffered in silence when she thought she might have contracted genital warts from an ex-boyfriend. Then she plucked up the courage to ask a school nurse what to do. "People just took the piss in sex education classes," she remembers. "It was difficult to find the information, but when I got to the clinic it was all fine and I was OK."
Sexually transmitted infections are on the increase among young people.
According to figures released by the Health Protection Agency, there were five times more cases of chlamydia among young men aged 15 to 19 in 2003 than there were in 1995; two-and-a-half times more among young women.
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