Welcome to The Teenage Information Bureau website.

Our aim is to raise and develop awareness to children and young adults, about the causes, symptoms and treatments for sexually transmitted infections and associated issues. We achieve this by supplying literature to educational establishments, in our free information distribution program.

In 2010 43,325 girls under the age of 18 became pregnant , most led to abortion.
 
One of the most commonly occurring STDs is Chlamydia. Chlamydia is a sexually transmitted disease that is very common and affects women each year.

Did you know?

• Over a quarter of people with HIV in the UK don’t know they are infected.
• One in 20 gay men in the UK is living with HIV.
• For someone diagnosed today at 35, the average age of diagnosis in the UK, life expectancy is over 72.
• The most common treatment today for someone diagnosed with HIV early is one pill, once or twice a day.
• Lots of people with HIV work and their HIV does not affect their working life.
• With the right medical help, the vast majority (approximately 99 per cent) of HIV positive women can give birth to healthy uninfected babies.
• There is no known case of HIV ever being transmitted at school yet some schools in the UK still refuse to accept children with HIV.
• HIV affects all ages. One in six people living with HIV in the UK are over 50. Last year one in ten people diagnosed were aged 16 to 24.

·  Breast cancer is now the most common cancer in the UK.
·  In the UK in 2007 almost 45,700 women were diagnosed with breast cancer, that’s around 125 women a day.
·  277 men in the UK were diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007.
·  Female breast cancer incidence rates have increased by around 50% over the last twenty-five years.
·  Around 2,000 men in the UK are diagnosed with testicular cancer every year.

·  Testicular cancer is rare before puberty but is the most common cancer of men aged 15-44.  

 
" SHOCK FIGURES REVEALED "
Twenty underage girls fall pregnant every day in this country with some as young as 10 .
in just one year 3 girls aged 10 , 5 girls aged 11 and 308 aged 13 became pregnant.
there were also 1708 girls aged 14 and 5551 aged 15.

 

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